Replying to Avatar ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ

it's a script that you download and then open from your disk... but it is a bit sketch, you'd have to open the dev controls to see it does no network connections

these things are just 121 and 192 or so bits that make a seed for a HD wallet, usually it gives you the first address it would generate as well. they are trivial to make as a local running program also, in almost any language
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Foxfire Mushrooms 8mo ago

Crazy to think of such an OG person making that mistake. I’m a total noob by comparison and I wouldn’t trust any internet connected device to generate my keys.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 8mo ago

yeah, though i have a special privilege in that i can write a little tool to generate them for myself and i can just check on the dependencies and functions to be certain nothing is calling the network... i have written dozens of key generators in the last 8 years

only the system random number generator can be suspect but every time a bad CSPRNG is found it is removed, this is the main non-network vulnerability, and affects TLS in a bad way that's why they fix them so fast