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Sorry to belabor something lots of readers already know: The long key may (or may not) be packed with entropy. But a pseudo-random number generator at best pres
by tom-thistime 4y ago
Sorry to belabor something lots of readers already know: The long key may (or may not) be packed with entropy. But a pseudo-random number generator at best preserves the entropy in the key.
- Mattasher 4y agoVery well put and worth reinforcing by thinking of PRNGs as entropy reduction functions on the original seeds, that ideally loose as little entropy as possible per generation cycle.