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Re: Word needed for Entropy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Mon Jun 28 21:39:12 1999
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:29:35 -0400 (EDT)
To: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <37750098.65F2A11D@acm.org>
[I suspect we're hitting the end of this thread... --Perry]
At 9:32 AM -0700 6/26/99, Carl Ellison wrote:
> I've been guilty of sloppy use of English, occasionally, and one such
> sloppiness that I run into occasionally is with the word "entropy"
> for cryptographic purposes.
>
> What we need is a word or very short phrase to capture the full
> phrase:
How about "God's dice"?
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