If you do not trust seed generators and do not believe your random keyboard smashing is random enough, you can use a dice to generate a random, perfectly distributed IOTA seed.
Just follow the instructions below and write down the seed while you are throwing your dice.
Note that this can be tedious, as between 162 and 243 dice rolls are required to generate the whole seed.
- Roll your dice two times (remember the order of the results).
- If the first roll is a 6, or if the first roll is a 5 and the second roll is 4-6, roll a third time.
- Look up the character in the table below
- Repeat until your seed has 81 characters
First roll | Second roll | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
2 | G | H | I | J | K | L | |
3 | M | N | O | P | Q | R | |
4 | S | T | U | V | W | X | |
5 | Third roll 1-2 Third roll 3-4 Third roll 5-6 |
Y | Z | 9 | A B C |
D E F |
G H I |
6 | Third roll 1-2 Third roll 3-4 Third roll 5-6 |
J K L |
M N O |
P Q R |
S T U |
V W X |
Y Z 9 |
That method works equally well, but requires more dice rolls. Put simply, in the proposed method, no letter ever takes more than 3 rolls, but in your method, the maximum number of rolls to generate a number is technically infinite (what if you rolled 66, 66, 66, ...).