Re: Toaster to Generate Random Numbers

From: lurker (na@nospam.org)
Date: 01/18/03 

From: na@nospam.org (lurker)
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 17:43:01 GMT

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 22:43:40 -0500, Nicol So <nobody@no.spam.please>
wrote:

>Nicol So wrote:
>>
>> ..., the output of
>> a (suitable) hash function contains most of the entropy in the input.
>> The expected lost of entropy can be estimated analytically, and is
>> small.
>
>Quite obviously, the above comment applies only when the entropy in the
>input is less than the number of bits in the output.
>
>--
>Nicol So
>Disclaimer: Views expressed here are casual comments and should
>not be relied upon as the basis for decisions of consequence.

Calculating this could be a challenge unless you are satisfied with
some round off error :- { )

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