On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:59:27 +0100, Sion Arrowsmith wrote: > [I think these attributions are right] Steven D'Aprano > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:45:19 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven >>> D'Aprano wrote: >>>> ... why do you say that xoring random data with other random data >>>> produces less randomness than you started with? >>> blocksize <= number_of_blocks * blocksize >>I must be thick, because that looks like a non sequitor to me. I don't >>see the relevance. > > Lawrence originally said something along the lines of this just being a > way of taking some random data and producing "less random data". You're > reading it as "(less random) data". The intent (I assume) is for it to > be read as "less (random data)".
Ah. That was how I read it. > Maybe it should be "fewer random data". After all, each byte in the > block is discrete. Or "a smaller amount of random data". -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
