Cryptography-Digest Digest #553, Volume #10 Fri, 12 Nov 99 15:13:02 EST
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Re: Proposal: Inexpensive Method of "True Random Data" Generation (Coen Visser)
slides from ECC '99 talks (Alfred John Menezes)
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From: Coen Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: sci.math,sci.misc,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Proposal: Inexpensive Method of "True Random Data" Generation
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:42:21 +0000
"james d. hunter" wrote:
> The general guiding principles concerning "sounds" and "looks"
> when connected with "random" are that Quantum Mechanics looks
> and -is- a randomly generated theory of the universe.
That may be the case in physics. This is not the case in
algorithmic information/complexity theory. I don't know enough
about physics to argue/agree with you on that field. What I do know
is that "random" is not a registered trademark of physicists.
> > A random string has maximum information content: its information
> > can not be described by a smaller string. You can find "randomness" in
> > the fact that you need the complete string to get its information. [...]
> If you insist on confusing yourself by using "random" for static and
> dynamic properties, be my guest, it's not I like really care.
What I object to is the fact that someone makes the assumption that
it is useless to attribute randomness to strings. There is interesting
field
in theoretical computer science that is build on that definition. Your
use of
randomness may be as useful/equivalent as the definition I use, am not
denying that. And if you don't care, you won't read and reply on this
message.
Regards,
Coen Visser
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alfred John Menezes)
Subject: slides from ECC '99 talks
Date: 12 Nov 1999 17:22:00 GMT
The 3rd annual workshop on elliptic curve cryptography, ECC '99,
took place from Nov 1-3 at the University of Waterloo. For those
of you who may be interested, the slides from the 15 lectures are
available for download from our web site (www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca
under "Conferences").
- Alfred
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