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0 pointsryanatdistrust2y ago0 comments

That is correct, you still have 2^32 permutations of possible values.

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Given it's seeded with system time, depending on the resolution, that may in practice be as low as tens of thousands of possible values (as in time(2) )

ryanatdistrustOP2y ago

2^32 is still incredibly small for crypto and is inexcusable.

nullc2y ago

A fact which was unambiguously well known to the authors prior to the report: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022...

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marginalia_nu2y ago

Given it's seeded with system time, depending on the resolution, that may in practice be as low as tens of thousands of possible values (as in time(2) )

ryanatdistrustOP2y ago

2^32 is still incredibly small for crypto and is inexcusable.

nullc2y ago

A fact which was unambiguously well known to the authors prior to the report: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022...

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