I'm really quite afraid of this ever-growing list of entropy/randomness/RNG flaws through time, as it relates to all our much vaunted bitcoin-specific hardware and software: 1930s: Enigma, encrypted letter could never be the same as the original letter 1994: Netscape SSL, seeds easily guessed, such as the time of day 2008: Debian/Ubuntu OpenSSL, only 32,000 unique host keys 2013: Android SecureRandom, repeated Bitcoin public keys 2023: MilkSad, Libbitcoin Explorer (bx), Mersenne Twister 32 bit (4 billion keys) limit ?: (Bitcoin Core|Lightning|Liquid|Nostr)*
chatgpt added: 2012: Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator (Dual_EC_DRBG) backdoor, likely introduced by NSA 2016: Infineon RSA, tokens, smart cards, and TPMs, weak RSA keys. ROCA (Return of Coppersmith's Attack), factorize private keys ∞: IoT Devices, 'nough said