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Comment by inigyou

8 hours ago

There have been cases where a small statistical bias like avoiding duplicate bytes can be amplified to a full break. I don't think this problem is applicable to a bitcoin private key though.

Right, that's particularly a concern for DSA nonces. Coldcard uses RFC 6979 however, and duplicates at the 32-bit word level is a different matter than at the byte level.