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

2017-09-07 Thread Steve Weis
I don't see anything that TEXTCOMBINE is useful for with respect to security, privacy, or liberation tech. It is not a robust entropy extractor and I would not use it for anything. Randomness extraction has been a research topic for 30 years. For background reading, here are a couple

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

2017-09-07 Thread Travis Biehn
It seems necessary, now, to hi-light the following caveat from the work; .. should be noted however that the goal of this software # is not the generation of bit sequences to compete with those from the # CSPRNGs, which have theoretical proofs of their nice qualities. Since the # techniques

Re: [liberationtech] Disroot + OpenNIC Project + GoldBug

2017-09-07 Thread Alberto Cammozzo
Thank you Cecilia, great resource! Alberto On 07/09/2017 06:58, Cecilia Tanaka wrote: > This is cute too! <3 > > https://www.privacytools.io > > --- > "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or > your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on >