Hey folks, I am building an open source air-gapped crypto vault, and as an option to not rely on system's entropy to generate random numbers, I am working on offering a "bring your own entropy" option.
This makes the system trustless, as less code about it needs to be reviewed & verified, as opposed to check whether the custom linux OS it works on, isn't acting in bad faith.
Or if you are an "Extremely cautious" user like me, you would like to do this by simply verifying how the coins flip / dice rolls are used as entropy & not worry about anything else as the device is air-gapped and runs an immutable OS without any persistence layer at all.
UI Screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ec1kJ3LU0AE0maT?format=png&name=large
My project is all about me exploring how much of a trustless system can be built.
Its my understanding flipping coin or rolling dice 256 times provide sufficient entropy to generate mnemonic, which is at par with what most computers are capable of, if not more.
So, would you be willing to do the boring manual work of flipping coin or rolling dice to record their value in order to use that as entropy?
Don't under-estimate the task. Just doing it once will take 6-10 seconds. Doing that 256 times might take you 25-45 mins.
Twitter poll is at https://twitter.com/ashfame/status/1282671325580910592.
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