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Is it potentially useful for something outside of cryptography? I was watching a video on speedrunning where they were gaming the RNG somehow to improve their t
by joe__f 5y ago
Is it potentially useful for something outside of cryptography? I was watching a video on speedrunning where they were gaming the RNG somehow to improve their times
- upofadown 5y agoPredictable bit streams that look random are useful for communications. Satellite navigation systems like GPS for instance use such streams where the whole idea is for a receiver to sync up on on the bitstream. An example where no one even cares exactly what the bitsream is can be found on motherboards where a bitstream is used to jitter the system clock to spread out any radio interference caused by the motherboard.
- _hl_ 5y ago> to jitter the system clock to spread out any radio interference caused by the motherboard Fascinating! That seems very counterintuitive, where can I learn more about this?
- upofadown 5y agoA hopefully relevant search: * https://www.google.com/search?q=motherboard+spread+spectrum https://www.google.com/search?q=motherboard+spread+spectrum
- joe__f 5y agoThese are some interesting uses of psuedorandom bit streams, but I didn't understand why being able to reverse engineer the streams using ML in these instances would be useful