Sin
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. John von Neumann
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Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. John von Neumann
Posted by M. Simon at 12/14/2010 11:59:00 PM
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I think von Neumann was being a little extreme there, psudorandom numbers are immensely useful, as long as you're generator is a good one. If you're doing cryptography on the other hand, he is entirely correct (though you don't need much entropy to get a good random stream)
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