From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Thu Sep 12 2002 - 00:10:51 MDT
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, gts wrote:
> Such keystroke generated numbers will usually pass tests for randomness
> but they are not genuinely or inherently random.
You're *still* confusing entropy and randomness. A series can pass all
tests for randomness, yet be generated by a PRNG. If the PRNG state is the
same, the series will be always the same. Similiarly, you can have a
sequence which doesn't pass most tests for randomness, yet is generated by
a RNG. Raw RNG output almost never passes tests for randomness. You have
to postprocess it.
I don't expect you to get this time either, but this merely for the
benefit of all those you're trying to confuse.
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