[Cryptography] A software for combining text files to obtain high quality pseudo-random sequences in practice
mok-kong shen
mok-kong.shen at t-online.de
Tue Jul 11 17:43:00 EDT 2017
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.
>
> Rich Schroeppel
> rcs at xmission.com
Your point is certainly true, many thanks for calling attention to that.
That would imply
though that one should be more careful in interpreting the test
statistic from Maurer's
test. I am attempting currently to find means to mitigate against that
bias and hope to
be able to report soon.
M. K. Shen
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