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Forgive me if this has been brought up before, I attempted to use the search feature and didn’t see anything related to this specifically. If I am just bad at search, do not hesitate to shame me.

I am looking to beef up the security of my bitcoin storage. I have the parts to build my own stateless seed signer, which is an important step up (imo) from relying on a prebuilt hardware wallet, but I fear I have put the cart before the horse.

I want to generate a new seed phrase/private key, preferably trustlessly and without the use of any digital RNG. I am aware of the two following options:
-dice rolls
-bag of chips, each with a different word from the bip39 wordlist

Am I missing any? Are there better options? Even if the options are more esoteric, I’m willing to learn.

Thanks for reading and for any helpful input.

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I don’t want to generate the randomness myself, though. I want a physical tool that doesn’t rely on a pseudorandom number generator that may or may not have a vulnerability exposed in the future.

See here for an example that illustrates my concern. It took 7 years to find the vulnerability.

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Tin foil hat approach, but I get it.

For the rest of the planet, entropy sources should be combined. e.g. Trezor seed generation mixes host provided entropy and the on device TRNG.

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https://m.stacker.news/5013

I appreciate your feedback.

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