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On 5/19/2016 11:00 AM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:cryptography-request@metzdowd.com">cryptography-request@metzdowd.com</a>
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:mailman.1.1463673601.120853.cryptography@metzdowd.com"
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<pre wrap="">[Cryptography] NSA Crypto Breakthrough Bamford [was: WhatsApp
keying...]:</pre>
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... Already, one other leading designer of randomness extractors,
Xin Li, has built on their work to create sequences of many more
random numbers.<br>
...<br>
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<pre wrap="">but in that case it's only a matter of time before one or the
other or both occur.
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<pre wrap="">Leaks can occur until time forgotten.
Math occurs randomly.
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As a mathematician, I could not pass up:<br>
<br>
(1) I work on (among other things) non-associative systems. The
phrase "many more random numbers" is a delightful example showing
English needs parentheses: One has to wonder, how much more random
are they? <br>
<br>
(2) "Math occurs randomly": Maybe to some extent, but highly
correlated with other things. E.g., the effect of Sputnik on
research funding...<br>
<br>
Bob Wilson
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