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

[John Hearns]

On 3 August 2010 16:21, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:56:13PM +0100, Nix wrote:
>> On 2 Aug 2010, Richard Jones spake thusly:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Conveniently there are better tests for randomness than that, which
>> aren't terribly expensive and lead to reasonably good randomness.
>> Convincing physicists is difficult enough if your source is non-
>> quantum.


Can be a matter of life and death for cats too you know.
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