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Fri Jun 23 12:03:19 PDT 2023


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List: unsolvable puzzle fun
From: confident naive puzzler
To: excited naive puzzler
Subject: reversing xor with random data was: Re: reversing simple hashes

> How could we simplify the problem into something implementable?

I started thinking of something easily-appliable and started
experiencing suffering instead of excitement :( I was thinking that
strong random number generators are usually generated based on
randomness metrics, so if you saw low randomness in the output it
might indicate destructive interference between the user data and the
random number generator.
I'm curious whether that's true or not. I'm guessing it's not actually
true. I imagine cryptographers would know, but I'd like to check in
some way.

Anyway, I think there is probably some way to simplify it. Like, say
we had a _super simple random process_ ... or a _simplistically
vulnerable random process_, like a gaussian distribution or something
.... or a _simplistically biased random process_ like 0 90% 1 10% ...
any of these would be reasonable.
Maybe the simplistic bias? To keep things kinda noisy but also useful?

Then, um, uh, for the user text, we could use GPT2 ? Or .... I dunno!
How about GPT2?


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