From: Devrandom <c1.bitcoin@niftybox.net>
To: James MacWhyte <macwhyte@gmail.com>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Card Shuffle To Bitcoin Seed
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 17:37:16 -0800 [thread overview]
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I would suggest 50+ 6-sided dice rolls, giving about 128 bits of entropy.
Compared to a shuffle, it's easier to be sure that you got the right amount
of entropy, even if the dice are somewhat biased.
On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 2:33 PM James MacWhyte via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> James
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 10:27 AM Ryan Havar via bitcoin-dev <
> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> Conveniently a shuffled deck of cards also can serve as a physical backup
>> which is easy to hide in plain sight with great plausible deniability.
>>
>
> To make sure someone doesn't play with your cards and mix up the order,
> use a permanent marker to draw a diagonal line on the side of the deck from
> corner to corner. If the cards ever get mixed up, you can put them back in
> order by making sure the diagonal line matches up.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-05 1:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-02 19:51 [bitcoin-dev] Card Shuffle To Bitcoin Seed rhavar
2019-02-04 6:49 ` Adam Ficsor
2019-02-04 21:05 ` James MacWhyte
2019-02-05 1:37 ` Devrandom [this message]
2019-02-06 13:48 ` Alan Evans
2019-02-06 13:51 ` Alan Evans
2019-02-07 2:42 ` James MacWhyte
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