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June 22, 2019, 03:57:32 PM
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Is the deck of cards entropy ADDED to the default computer RNG entropy, or is the cards entropy used ON ITS OWN?

Just wanted to be sure.
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June 22, 2019, 06:26:14 PM
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It's XOR'ed with the rest of the entropy gathered for wallet seed creation.
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