building a true RNG

[Barney Wolff]

This leads me to ask what may be a laughably naive question:
Do we even know that the popular hash functions can actually generate
all 2^N values of their outputs?

Amir Herzberg wrote:
> So I ask: is there a definition of this `no wasted entropy` property, which
> hash functions can be assumed to have (and tested for), and which ensures
> the desired extraction of randomness?

-- 
Barney Wolff
I never met a computer I didn't like.

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