Voskuil was before my time. What was that situation like?

I was thinking about that earlier. 

Also the privacy implications of this might be a bit of a bummer:

![](https://m.stacker.news/150302)

remember, this is exactly the same reason why many people don't want to talk to Voskuil anymore. Same ~~bug~~ error.

optimism

 #else // MICROPY_HW_ENABLE_RNG

// For MCUs that don't have an RNG we still need to provide a rng_get() function,
// eg for lwIP and random.seed().  A pseudo-RNG is not really ideal but we go with
// it for now, seeding with numbers which will be somewhat different each time.  We
// don't want to use urandom's pRNG because then the user won't see a reproducible
// random stream.

bitcoin

Technical Deep Dive into the Entropy Issue

itsrealfake

This [comment](https://github.com/Coldcard/micropython/blob/4107246f8a080807b62c3b4838e71e812ea68b6f/ports/stm32/rng.c#L64-L98) from ColdCard's micropython:


```
 #else // MICROPY_HW_ENABLE_RNG

// For MCUs that don't have an RNG we still need to provide a rng_get() function,
// eg for lwIP and random.seed().  A pseudo-RNG is not really ideal but we go with
// it for now, seeding with numbers which will be somewhat different each time.  We
// don't want to use urandom's pRNG because then the user won't see a reproducible
// random stream.
```