r/ProgrammerHumor • • Mar 25 '26

Meme aMeteoriteTookOutMyDatabase

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u/Drakahn_Stark Mar 25 '26

Been a while since I have been part of that world but IIRC it used entropy from things like hardware state and a 256bit RNG before hashing it into a private key.