[Cryptography] NSA Crypto Breakthrough Bamford [was: WhatsApp, keying...]

[Bob Wilson]

On 5/19/2016 11:00 AM, cryptography-request at metzdowd.com wrote:
> [Cryptography] NSA Crypto Breakthrough Bamford [was: WhatsApp
> 	keying...]:
... Already, one other leading designer of randomness extractors, Xin 
Li, has built on their work to create sequences of many more random numbers.
...
> but in that case it's only a matter of time before one or the
> other or both occur.

Leaks can occur until time forgotten.
Math occurs randomly.

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As a mathematician, I could not pass up:

(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?

(2) "Math occurs randomly": Maybe to some extent, but highly correlated 
with other things. E.g., the effect of Sputnik on research funding...

Bob Wilson
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