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> I've heard standard dice are more random than PRNGs anyway. How's that?
by ReactiveJelly 6y ago
> I've heard standard dice are more random than PRNGs anyway.
How's that?
- owenversteeg 6y agoWell, the P is what does you in, really :) PRNGs use a few bytes of entropy to make a ton of bytes of /dev/urandom. With dice, the entropy is directly in your hands. Also, apparently dice are quite good sources of entropy, enough that people use them for actual crypto from time to time. I imagine most people would just be concerned with the distribution of 1-6 but I suppose if you're using them for actual crypto you'd care about other things (do you start to throw in a specific way after a while? Maybe getting into a sort of rhythm that affects the output?)