A proper law

[Peter Tomlinson]

In my experience, the processing uses a fixed algorithm, and is not an
attempt to spot non-randomness. One practitioner in this field told me to
print out the bit stream as a 2D plot (e.g. just fill a page with the bits)
and check it by eye for patterns.

Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Hansen" <davidh@spidacom.co.uk>
To: <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: A proper law


> On 5 Mar 2003 at 19:23, Brian Morrison wrote:
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> > Current methods involve using white noise generated by a semiconductor
> > device such as a noise diode being turned back into bits and then
> > processed to ensure randomness
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> One is relyng on the latter process being able to spot non-
> randomness.
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> I wouldn't trust too much to such a process.
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