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Chosen by a fair dice roll (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 6 points 1 hour ago (6 children)

Is there actually a downside to just, typing a random string of numbers manually over a number generator?

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 hour ago

    Aside from humans being terrible random number generators, not as such.

    It's better to seed a CSPRNG with a source of entropy though. E.g. there are tools that let you enter the result of many dice rolls and use it to generate a key.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    You are not random enough, that's why we have this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module

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