[Cryptography] A software for combining text files to obtain high quality pseudo-random sequences in practice

[mok-kong shen]

Am 10.07.2017 um 18:38 schrieb rcs at xmission.com:
> In English, in normal Ascii, the vowels are odd.
> With your encoding, vowels are even -- the low bit is 0.
> Vowels are pretty common, around 50% of typical text.
> This will spoil the statistics of your random bits.
Note that I don't use xoring. With the mapping of a-z to 0-25
(i.e. simply in alphabetical order) and use of summation of values
mod 32 it is anyway an experimental result I found via trying a
number of different sets of 4 text files that Maurer's test always
comes out ok.

M. K. Shen