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Re: Are dices for generating seed words fair?
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o_e_l_e_o
on 08/01/2024, 14:22:33 UTC
⭐ Merited by BlackHatCoiner (4)
I would use casino grade dices and test it for its bias before using it.
Which statistical tests are you going to use? What degree of bias are you trying to exclude? What p value are you happy with? How many rolls does that require?

To convert it to binary without bias i would use this model : number1 : 1 number2: 0 number3: 00 number4: 01 number5: 10 number6: 11.
This method has always "felt" like the best way to turn dice rolls in to bits to me, but I am not a cryptographer and I'm not ruling out some bias which I am unaware of. Which is why I always recommend that people don't come up with their own ad hoc schemes.

It will be far quicker using a Von Neumann approach to flipping a coin to generate a provably random stream of bits than it will be to even begin to test the fairness of your dice.