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<b style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Gönderen:</b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> Robert Wilson
via cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com> adına cryptography <cryptography-bounces+bizbucaliyiz=hotmail.com@metzdowd.com></span><br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>Konu:</b> [Cryptography] RNGs, Entropy, and Unguessability (really clock synchrony)</font>
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I had then been thinking of distributed as meaning something like <br>
network-connected machines. But as Kent correctly points out, even <br>
within what we call a CPU chip, at any instant (and what does even that <br>
mean?) any distinct points will have different notions of what's going <br>
<div>on! What kinds of systems, if any, can have well defined states?</div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">What about quantum entanglement? Entangled particles seems to be knowing the state of the each other in any instant. Perhaps a quantum machine that can do calculations with entangled particles will have such knowledge?
I don't know.</span></div>
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