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> XKCD joked about the problem of secure generation of random 32 bit numbers by rolling a 65536-sided die Well, 2^16 = 65536, so it's a 16-bit number. To get a
by woliveirajr 4y ago
> XKCD joked about the problem of secure generation of random 32 bit numbers by rolling a 65536-sided die
Well, 2^16 = 65536, so it's a 16-bit number. To get a random 32-bit number you'd need to roll more than once....
- recursive 4y agoXKCD got it right. aleph.se got it wrong.