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I dont have math or statistics knowledge. How hard is it to prove true randomness? My guess is that it is either incredibly difficult or impossible. Or at le
by ThinkBeat 3y ago
I dont have math or statistics knowledge.
How hard is it to prove true randomness?
My guess is that it is either incredibly difficult or impossible.
Or at least one would need an enormous number of samples to
start the analysis.
- charcircuit 3y agoIt's impossible as the seed can always be bigger.
- IncreasePosts 3y agoYou can never prove it absolutely just from the output, because there is always a possibility that a true random number generator would generate some non-random looking output, like a run of one thousand ones.
- pclmulqdq 3y agoI run a randomness company. It's impossible to prove it 100%. What you can do instead is run code audits, analyze the theoretical basis of the entropy source, and test large amounts of data for its statistical properties. That can get you to near certainty, but it's still empirical.
- ThinkBeat 3y agoThat is interesting. Do you offer randomness as a service? People contact your API to retrieve random data? or do you sell software / hardware to create random data?
- pclmulqdq 3y agoBoth, depending on the desires of customers, but it's currently leaning towards high-end hardware/software. A broad-market randomness-as-a-service offering is coming this month.