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		marginalia_nu on Aug 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Milk Sad Disclosure 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) )

ryanatdistrust on Aug 8, 2023 [–]

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

nullc on Aug 8, 2023 | [–]

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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