[Cryptography] TEXTCOMBINE-REV, A software for combining text files to obtain high-quality pseudo-randomness in practice (replacing an earlier retracted software)

[mok-kong shen]

Am 01.09.2017 um 00:11 schrieb Phillip Hallam-Baker:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 5:26 PM, mok-kong shen 
> <mok-kong.shen at t-online.de <mailto:mok-kong.shen at t-online.de>> wrote:
>
>
>     An earlier software of mine, TEXTCOMBINE-SP, posted to this group
>     was not
>     satisfactory due a bug in a function employed in its design and
>     was retracted.
>
>     I am posting now its replacement TEXTCOMBINE-REV which has been
>     carefully
>     tested and has a fairly good performance IMHO. The following is
>     extracted from its
>     Prologue:
>
>
> ​What is the application?
>
> ​Cryptography requires numbers that are unguessable. Numbers that are 
> random are not necessarily unguessable
>
For crypto applications, try to guess, i.e. identify, from the resulting 
sequence the
4 text sources, i.e. title of the books and their starting posotions, if 
these are kept
secret from the adversary. (A utility function shortentextfiles() in the 
software can be
useful in such cases.)

M. K. Shen
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