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Title: What is the starting point ? Post by: BitCoinDream on April 09, 2014, 07:31:45 PM When we are generating addresses using Bitcoin-QT, what is the starting point ? I mean what input Bitcoin-QT takes from Windows OS, say Win 7 ? Windows generated random numbers ?
Title: Re: What is the starting point ? Post by: DannyHamilton on April 09, 2014, 07:46:56 PM When we are generating addresses using Bitcoin-QT, what is the starting point ? I mean what input Bitcoin-QT takes from Windows OS, say Win 7 ? Windows generated random numbers ? Yes. Title: Re: What is the starting point ? Post by: Kiki112 on April 09, 2014, 08:20:05 PM When we are generating addresses using Bitcoin-QT, what is the starting point ? I mean what input Bitcoin-QT takes from Windows OS, say Win 7 ? Windows generated random numbers ? Yes. wow that really explained it faster then I thought it could be Title: Re: What is the starting point ? Post by: DannyHamilton on April 09, 2014, 08:38:20 PM When we are generating addresses using Bitcoin-QT, what is the starting point ? I mean what input Bitcoin-QT takes from Windows OS, say Win 7 ? Windows generated random numbers ? Yes. wow that really explained it faster then I thought it could be Ask a simple question: "When we are generating addresses using Bitcoin-QT what input does Bitcoin-QT take from Windows OS, Windows generated random numbers?" Get a simple answer: "Yes." I suppose I could have been a bit more wordy... "Yes, when generating addresses using Bitcoin-Qt, Bitcoin-Qt gets a random number from the operating system." Is that any better? Title: Re: What is the starting point ? Post by: Flashman on April 10, 2014, 12:18:32 AM Did I hear it was number of microseconds since last boot for this or something else??? Taken as the seed... anyway, something like that.
Title: Re: What is the starting point ? Post by: DannyHamilton on April 10, 2014, 12:23:24 AM Did I hear it was number of microseconds since last boot for this or something else??? Taken as the seed... anyway, something like that. No Title: Re: What is the starting point ? Post by: BitCoinDream on April 10, 2014, 07:10:37 AM When we are generating addresses using Bitcoin-QT, what is the starting point ? I mean what input Bitcoin-QT takes from Windows OS, say Win 7 ? Windows generated random numbers ? Yes. So it is a random number, NOT a random string. Ok... Any idea about the length of the number ? If there is no fixed length then probably the max length ? Title: Re: What is the starting point ? Post by: howzar on April 10, 2014, 02:16:24 PM When we are generating addresses using Bitcoin-QT, what is the starting point ? I mean what input Bitcoin-QT takes from Windows OS, say Win 7 ? Windows generated random numbers ? Yes. Wait what? How is Yes valid answer? EdIt: oh I see. kind of |