I have a program I’m working on in plain old C language that requires the user to flip a coin 128 times. This provides 128 bits running over SHA256. The first byte (leftmost character?) of that hash must be converted back to binary and added to the initial entropy. This gives 132 bits to form 12 seed words. But the last word is never right. There is something wrong with my logic. Can someone find it and tell me what I should do?? Here’s an example: Let’s say the user flipped their head 128 times. It will be 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.…
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