What's to stop offline wallets from generating addresses/keys they control?

[orangeman1979]

I'm interested in Armory wallet and using it as a cold storage wallet.  However, for the addresses and keys it generates, what's to stop it from being addresses and keys that Armory developers already have (or any other alternative cold storage wallets?)

[PenAndPaper]

Those addresses are created randomly. On top of that i think that armory is open source so i guess someone paranoid enough checked it out already.

[orangeman1979]

Those addresses are created randomly. On top of that i think that armory is open source so i guess someone paranoid enough checked it out already.

Ah ok, didn't know it was open source... however i remember with the NSA that they had messed up some random number generators for encryption and that introduced some backdoors, wonder how safe the RNG's for bitcoin address/key generation are.

[PenAndPaper]

It seems that they messed with parameters of cryptographic algorithms but for all we know bitcoin it's safe, unless proven otherwise...