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Are they though? What kind of a random number generator is being used? Does it have 256 bits of entropy?


I doubt it actually works correctly. When I get a random number out of 904625697166532776746648320380374280100293470930272690489102837043110636675, it's the probably that it has the same amount of digits is ~1:9 and has at least 3 digits less is ~1:900. But i constantly get way smaller numbers.


I could simply* be a 256bit LFSR so guaranteed to cycle through every possibility.

* As far as I'm aware there are not taps published for a 256 LFSR.




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