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
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
I know you don't like to be called Professor, but you were being my
teacher, my professor while I was feeling fear and much pain in the
hospital. I thank you very much for sincerely sharing your software with
us. Some will hate, some will love, but the point is knowing how many
efforts, how much
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satisfactory due a bug in a function employed in its design and was
retracted.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
