On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 01:54:06PM -0500, \0xDynamite wrote:
>> Speaking of cryptography (harhar), I was contemplating an idea to
>> generate random streams of random numbers using chaos theory (not the
>> first), specifically the logistic equation [3.5x(1-x)], when I came
>> across the argument (
http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~wagner/laws/chaos.html)
>> that such generators are "psuedo-random", but I don't think is true.
>I would suggest to make a toy implementation say in pari/gp or sagemath
and then evaluate it.
>There are quantitative estimates how "random" a sequence of bytes is.
Both as services and standalone applications.
>IIRC they look for bias, like the rank of matrices over some field.
>Per rough memories the number Pi failed the crypto randomness test.