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> 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
by 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