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I think, from a practical standpoint, if "never" means "never before the heat death of the universe" then I'd be pretty satisfied. Pure math is truly wonderful
by ryanthejuggler 13y ago
I think, from a practical standpoint, if "never" means "never before the heat death of the universe" then I'd be pretty satisfied. Pure math is truly wonderful (I love theoretical stuff) but at some point it does have to shift back to the practical realm.
- sigkill 13y agoI agree with you. I was just informing the parent poster how differently cryptographers see the world as compared to us normal people. Although, in some respects, I do get where they're coming from. New algorithms and computing paradigms develop that make the previous one broken. I'm just guessing here, but it maybe possible that probabilistic computers and awesome algorithms a few decades down the line are able to recover states of a CSPRNG by applying statistical techniques. Obviously, I'm way over my head here but this is a possibility. If you say that the OP was talking about TRNGs then all bets are off. It could so happen that two consecutive 512-bits are exactly the same. The probability is extremely low (birthday low) but since it's a TRNG there's still a chance that it will happen.