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COLDCARD firmware PR #691: pass the full secure-element digest

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https://github.com/Coldcard/firmware/pull/691

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Open incident-response proposal to remove the firmware-side four-byte truncation. Depends on the libngu PR #60 change.

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    A reviewer noted that the change is already covered by PR #713 commit d16d47b and asked the author to close this draft, and a collaborator asked the author to double-check and close.

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    The author marked the pull request as a draft at 16:13 and rewrote its description. The submodule bump note became a re-pin to the companion RNG fix, and the stated dependency moved from switck/libngu#60 to #61, described as replacing the generator with a SHA-256 Hash-DRBG and making reseed() require a seed of at least 32 bytes, so this firmware change becomes a prerequisite for #61 booting on-device. GitHub edited-comment and loading-error chrome appeared in the same capture.

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     This change passes the full 32-byte digest to reseed().
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     shared/mk4.py: drop the 4-byte truncation; feed the whole SHA256d digest.
    -Bump external/libngu to the companion fix that makes reseed() absorb a
    -full-width seed into all generator state words.
    +Re-pin external/libngu to the companion RNG fix.
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    -Requires switck/libngu#60 (the reseed() rework). Until that merges, the bumped
    -submodule commit exists only on the libngu fork, so firmware CI cannot fetch it
    -from upstream. Options for maintainers: merge switck/libngu#60 first and re-pin, or
    -I can temporarily point .gitmodules at the fork branch for CI — happy to do
    -whichever you prefer.
    +Draft — depends on switck/libngu#61; will re-pin on merge. #61 replaces the
    +generator with a SHA-256 Hash-DRBG and makes reseed() require a ≥32-byte seed
    +(it now rejects the old 4-byte int call), so this mk4.py change is required for
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     Public disclosure: Block engineering, "Predictable RNG fallback and 32-bit reseed in
     COLDCARD firmware." This addresses the 32-bit-reseed half. (The predictable-fallback
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