Given Blockstream’s response, I don’t think they deserve any...

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2026-09-02T13:52:22Z

Given Blockstream’s response, I don’t think they deserve any further benefit of the doubt on this issue.

Classic Jade devices running non-radio firmware version 1.0.40 or earlier have a legitimate trust issue regarding the entropy produced by the hardware RNG, because the way it was being sampled appears to fall outside the conditions recommended by the manufacturer, Espressif, for obtaining maximum entropy from the SAR ADC source.

It is true that Jade later mixes multiple entropy sources into its internal state, but without a published lower bound or measurement of the min-entropy contributed by those sources, there is no public evidence demonstrating that the resulting BIP39 entropy necessarily reaches 128 bits.

What has surprised me most is Blockstream’s apparent lack of awareness of these ESP32-specific RNG constraints, despite relying on that hardware as a core part of the device’s entropy-generation process.

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