r/crypto

Did I wrote pure garbage? I d like a first check before waiting for peer review.

After reading about cases where weak entropy led to unsafe keys and people losing funds (recent bitcoin COLDCARD attack) , I decided to learn more about entropy and how it is generated.

There are different ways to generate entropy, like TRNGs, PRNGs, rolling dice, or flipping coins. But for me, it was hard to make these concepts click and understand how we go from a random source of entropy to something like a private key.

So I made a tool that explains this visually.

Live Demo: https://hashexplained.com/entropy
Source (MIT): https://github.com/bitcoin-dev-project/hashes-visualizer

This is seems noteworthy. It's from Simon.

Correct me if I'm wrong but the approximation factor of sqrt(n)polylog(n) means that current lattice cryptosystems would be in danger and not PQ-algorithms anymore.