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84 sats \ 3 replies \ @nerd2ninja 5 Aug \ parent \ on: [ELI5] How does low entropy hurt security? AskSN bitcoin_beginners math science

If the process were unknown, but enough known keys were generated from said process, mathematicians could probably work out a way to guess the search space.

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15 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 5 Aug

That makes sense. Is there any risk for a single key, other than the process becoming known?

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58 sats \ 1 reply \ @nerd2ninja 5 Aug

Just that, to do it well enough to not get guessed, is more complicated to work out, than just using dice lmao.

A one time use psuedo random process could be created, but....no lmao

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15 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 5 Aug

This was to help me check my intuition about what's going on.

Even if I rolled my own process, I'd do enough reps to have high entropy.

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