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I know what I am talking about: above poster is correct. Proper encryption, maximum compression, and random bytes are all indistinguishable, as they have maxim

• TomSwirly 5y ago
  > are all indistinguishable, without additional information! I can prove to you that you're seeing an encrypted message by giving you the decryption key, and I can prove to you that you're seeing compression by giving you the decompression algorithm. However, there is no way to prove that random bytes are _really_ random.
  • Jerrrry 5y ago
    >However, there is no way to prove that random bytes are _really_ random. well of course, because the opposite is true, any string of bytes can by XOR'd to something meaningful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
• inkeddeveloper 5y ago
  It’s a tough grade.