Also the page on randomness shows that `bx help seed` shows no warning, either (I haven't checked the latest code, though):
https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-explorer/wiki/Random-Numbers
I'm still mystified, after seeing Eric's response on twitter. He points out that this function is documented as "can introduce weaknesses" ...
(though:
1/ the first place I'm directed to for documentation is this page on the wiki:
https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-explorer/wiki
which was edited in 2018 and misses the warning, and
2/ it's in fact 100% guaranteed to be entirely insecure, so "can introduce cryptographic weaknesses" is pretty catastrophically misleading to a potential user),
... but doesn't really justify .. why the function is there in the first place if, as he seems to be saying, no part of the libbitcoin suite was ever intended to generate keys (this does not agree with my decade-old memories of Taaki's explanation of how these tools could be used; maybe it changed from 2015 to 2016 somehow, and, uh, the wiki also?)
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