[Gllug] entropykey: why did nobody ever mention this thing before?

[Richard Jones]

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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