In the context of:

>> If you mean for something to be hard for the attacker to guess,
>> the word "adamance" can be used.

On 06/26/2017 08:32 AM, Salz, Rich wrote:

> All my attempts to look up a definition of this word came up with a noun for 
> for adamant.

The word "adamance", meaning hardness (as in hard to guess),
was coined for this purpose.

The allusion to "adamance", meaning hardness (as in rheologically
hard), is not a coincidence.

Can anybody suggest a better term?

For more on this, and a host of RNG-related issues see:
  https://www.av8n.com/turbid/paper/rng-intro.htm

> Is it worth reposting my thoughts with your suggested wording changes?

OK.  Off-list or on.  This stuff is important.

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