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Bitcoin => Wallet software => Topic started by: thms on July 22, 2014, 02:04:10 PM



Title: What's the client with the best random number generation algorithm?
Post by: thms on July 22, 2014, 02:04:10 PM
Are they all the same? or each client has a custom algorithm to generate random private keys?


Title: Re: What's the client with the best random number generation algorithm?
Post by: btchris on July 22, 2014, 10:02:43 PM
I don't know what the very best is, but they're definitely not all the same. I somewhat answered this over here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=704771.msg7975168#msg7975168 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=704771.msg7975168#msg7975168).


Title: Re: What's the client with the best random number generation algorithm?
Post by: thms on July 22, 2014, 10:24:49 PM
I don't know what the very best is, but they're definitely not all the same. I somewhat answered this over here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=704771.msg7975168#msg7975168 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=704771.msg7975168#msg7975168).


thanks for your responses, never would have thought that generating a random number could be so complicated.