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From: shaun@octel.com (Ralph Neutrino)

Subject: Re: IBM-PC random generator, source included Message-ID: 1992Jul1.233641.22713@octel.com Organization: Octel Communications Inc., Milpitas Ca. References: 2809@accucx.cc.ruu.nl 1992Jun25.203230.6489@tamsun.tamu.edu

Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1992 23:36:41 GMT Lines: 20

In article 7205@public.BTR.COM grady@public.BTR.COM (Grady Ward grady@btr.com ) writes:

As far as PC generators of one-time pads: just because you cannot find any statistical regularities in an arbitrary sequence of bits, does not mean that they are not there and exploitable by an astute opponent. True chaos (whatever that is) is pretty hard to find and exploit... ^^^^^

Chaotic dynamical systems are definitely not random. If you mean "randomness," you should say "randomness."

(Sorry for the nit pickage, but chaos has a well-defined mathematical meaning, which definitely does not correspond to random. Complex, yes; random, no.
Wouldn't want folks gettin' the wrong impression...)

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