RE: TUTORIAL - Generate Bitcoin Private Keys SECURELY!
Hi, @profitgenerator,
Thanks for the "shout out" link to my Bitcoin article. :) I do appreciate the mention!
However, I must continue to disagree with you about sources of randomness. Computers are a rather poor source of entropy. Good casino dice, however, are "fair" in the sense of "not a cheat." They roll quite randomly. This article, "Experimentally obtained statistics of dice rolls" reports on a test of more than half a million rolls of casino dice in good condition, and found no evidence of any bias in the roll. Casino dice are inherently random.
On the other hand, computers are by their very nature predictable and repeatable. In order to obtain truly random numbers from a computer, some non-computational source of entropy must be introduced. This article, "Introduction to Randomness and Random Numbers" from http://random.org explains this in considerable detail.
And so, Thank You, but I'll be sticking with my 100% random casino dice when it comes to generating private keys for storing my bitcoin and/or other cryptocurrencies! ;)
I disagree, it has been scientifically proven that the CPU cache timeouts or whatever it is called, is statistically random. And a good software gather other entropy sources too, like the heat of the PC and others. It should be very high quality randomness.
But you can always salt the entropy just to make sure it's not tampered randomness.
Why would you use Random.org? You want that website to know your entropy? Why not just generate it yourself then.
I am not against the dice, I would use dices too, but I would only use them as salt, and not as the main entropy source.
I don't use Random.org - it is simply a good source of information about randomness.
I know what randomness is, i have a background in statistics :)
But it might be good for newbies here. Anyways nice debate, I'll be reading your content, you put out some good stuff.