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July 30, 2015, 07:26:52 AM
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Am I good to go? Do I have your blessings?

The wording makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

Let's make things clear. Armory is FOSS, the common sense implications are that you are using the software at your own risk and that you can't hold us devs accountable for snafus. You also didn't pay me for my consult on this matter so you can't hold me directly responsible if stuff goes stupid.

TLDR, I'm laying out my opinion, you figure out the rest for yourself.

That said, I think Armory gathers enough entropy to create root keys as is, and that the method you propose will not reduce entropy, and in fact increase it. I think the extra entropy is overkill in this particular case, and past 256 bits entropy, quality trumps quantity. But that's only my opinion and you should definitely go with what makes you comfortable.

Do with that what you may.

From what I can tell, it also seems a bit like overkill (as I was saying above).  Nevertheless this discussion has been really interesting and helpful.  Thanks goatpig for the links and the writeups.  Good luck with your storage wallet pf!
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