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That is correct, you still have 2^32 permutations of possible values.
by ryanatdistrust 3y ago
That is correct, you still have 2^32 permutations of possible values.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoGiven 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) )
- ryanatdistrust 3y ago2^32 is still incredibly small for crypto and is inexcusable.
- nullc 3y agoA fact which was unambiguously well known to the authors prior to the report: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-July/020652.html https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022...