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How to safely and randomly iterate a key derived from Scrypt?
First, using a private key that's deterministically derived from a password is almost always wrong. Passwords are often compromised or forgotten and therefore need to be changed. If changing the ...
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How to safely and randomly iterate a key derived from Scrypt?
Thus, using the output of Scrypt directly as a private key $\bmod N$ would create a small bias in the resulting keys that are generated - bad news, so I need to avoid that.
Actually, the bias wouldn'...
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