[12723] in Cypherpunks
Random #'s via CD-ROM?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike McNally)
Fri Apr 29 08:35:13 1994
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 94 07:33:06 CDT
From: m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
To: grendel@netaxs.com (Michael Brandt Handler)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks)
In-Reply-To: <199404290142.VAA04213@access.netaxs.com>
Data on CD-ROM will in general be decidedly non-random, unless the
CD-ROM was purposely generated as a collection of random bits. ASCII
text files and executables have all sorts of structure. Even music
CD's are pretty useless as random bit sources.
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