David Schwartz wrote:
Deterministic is the antithesis of truly random.
I think you're obliged to define what you mean by "truly random" --
maybe even think about it before using such terms.
Most processes that generate "random" noise don't usually have
an nice, equiprobable, Poisson distribution. So what's "truly"
random? I don't think you know. I'm not sure about your
understanding of deterministic, either.
Is the latched output of a free-running oscillator and a clock
"truly" random? Thermal noise? Radioactive decay?
The distinction you make, with ill-defined and poorly understood
terms, is specious. Among the mind-blowingly stupid things you've
said in this thread:
So /dev/random tries to provide truly random numbers while
/dev/urandom tries to provide only cryptographically-secure
pseudo-random numbers
It's as assured by the implementation as RSA assures that
its operations are irreversible.
Well, these statements are false. I leave it up to you to decide
whether such utterances are, on their face, stupid.
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