On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 7:32:55 PM UTC+12, Paul Rubin wrote: > Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes: >> The definition of “random” is “unknowable”. So all you are stating is >> a tautology. > > What? No. You read a bunch of bits out of the device and you want to > know whether they are Kolmogorov-random (you can look up what that means > if you're not familiar with it). Quantum theory says they are, but if > it is true, there is no scientific way to confirm it.
Randomness is not something you can ever prove. Which is why it is the weak point of all encryption algorithms. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
