Re: strengthening /dev/urandom

From: Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen_at_t-online.de)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:51:06 +0200

Bryan Olson wrote:
> Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
> > I used symbols, attempting to make it clear.
>
> It's not a clarity problem.
>
> > Now look at
> > another formulation: [...]
>
> I don't see the point of another formation of a wrong result.
>
> > Analogy: If one has an ochestra, then all
> > musicians are contributing to the whole performance. If one
> > of them is absent, the performance naturally suffers.
>
> Analogy? Why continue to use methods that have failed you over
> and over before?

What do you mean? Isn't clear that the musicians are contributing
to the good performance of the orchestra just as the diverse
entropy sources are contributing to the good quality of the
output of /dev/random??

M. K. Shen