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Playing with Turmites: better than crypto/rand? (vrypan.net)
3 points by vrypan 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


A totally predictable pattern shows more entropy than a randomly generated one. I would love to hear from people who have better and deeper understanding of the topic.


For cryptography, it's probably more important to be unpredictable than to have a perfect entropy score.




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