[Gllug] entropykey: why did nobody ever mention this thing before?
Richard Jones
rich at annexia.org
Mon Aug 2 15:43:09 UTC 2010
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:09:51PM +0100, - Tethys wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:32:19AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> >> However I'm suspicious that the numbers are really going to be random.
> >
> > By "really", I mean "in a way that would convince physicists and
> > philosophers", not would pass a chi-square test.
>
> Philosophers? Huh? What on earth do they need a good source of random
> numbers for? I'd say the true test is whether or not it would convince
> a cryptographer.
As they say, "that's alright in practice, but how well does it work in
theory?"
Rich.
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Richard Jones
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