0 sats \ 3 replies \ @joda 29 Mar \ on: Hiding private keys in public bitcoin
It's just one part of the entropy, like you can use a personal photo to create entropy. You still add more randomness.
Because some people don't trust entropy created purely by a chip.
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58 sats \ 2 replies \ @davidw 29 Mar
Whatever you do, don't use your brain to generate 'randomness'. This post on perceived human randomness is startling - #484683
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @1GLENCoop 30 Mar
Holy. I zapped ya 37 sats for that one.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @joda 30 Mar
Indeed. It's so very "human" to try to "outsmart" the work of decades of cryptography and computer science.
It's hard to believe that there's an "optimum" amount of randomness; that you can't just make more and more.
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