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Re: Are dices for generating seed words fair?
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BlackHatCoiner
on 22/12/2023, 11:21:39 UTC
after reading more about the subject i come to the conclusion that dice rolling is better even if i dont use fair dice.
It is faster, and most likely sufficient if rolled enough.

Am i thinking correct?
Yes, if you roll it 100 times, then even if it seems completely biased towards 1, it will generate enough entropy. That's the Shannon equation for measuring uncertainty.

I have demonstrated in here. The probability of a number being 50%, and the rest 5 being 10% each, still gives 2.16 bits of entropy on each roll, which is 0.42 less than in a completely unbiased dice, but enough nevertheless if you simply roll it a few times more.

It simply takes time to verify that the dice won't fare worse than that. In contrast, coin flipping using von Neumann's method necessitates no precautionary measures.