2010/10/4 Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk> > > I do love all this considerations. Just wondering by on earth entropy > > doesn't get much attention in a world where people seems so worried > > about security and privacy. > > Do you mean the world in general or the OpenBSD world. > > I presume you've read the OpenBSD crypto papers that talk about how > impossible it is to create a true random generator. > > First I'd ask how well can anyone prove that the NIST statistical test > suite can reliably judge randomness? > > It just tries to prove the opposite. If the data has patterns it can find, its not random. Proving something is random is insanely much harder.
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