Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Sin

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. John von Neumann

Posted by M. Simon at 12/14/2010 11:59:00 PM

Labels:

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think von Neumann was being a little extreme there, psudorandom numbers are immensely useful, as long as you're generator is a good one. If you're doing cryptography on the other hand, he is entirely correct (though you don't need much entropy to get a good random stream)

Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 4:27:00 AM UTC

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)