Questions tagged [seed]
A seed is a value used by pseudo-random number generators (PRNG) as a first value to calculate random values.
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Security Risks of Deriving Crypto Wallet Seed Phrases Using Deterministically Derived Salt
I'm working on a project where I want to generate a set of crypto wallet seed phrases from an existing seed phrase. The reason for this is so that using just the original seed phrase the wallet holder ...
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Randomness of seeded cryptographically secure random number generator
If I generate a large true random number and I seed a CSPRNG with it, then can the output of this CSPRNG be used anywhere where there is a need for a true random number?
For example, if Alice and Bob ...
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Security of PHP's str_shuffle()
I'm doing some research on PHP's str_shuffle function, I already asked this question multiply times on StackOverflow but got no answer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61968859/is-it-possible-to-...
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What is the correct way to seed CSPRNG functions?
When using CSPRNG (crypto secure pseudo random number generation) functions seeding is an important step. So what is the best way to seed a random number function?
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