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[Way OT] RE: [ILUG] serious Debian/Ubuntu security hole found

[Way OT] RE: [ILUG] serious Debian/Ubuntu security hole found

paul at clubi.ie paul at clubi.ie
Fri May 16 14:46:53 IST 2008


On Fri, 16 May 2008, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> It seems to be based on the belief that if you don't know
> what the next number is then it must be random.

What's the basis behind believing certain finite-period mathematical 
functions produce random output?

I'm now confused as to what the argument here is exactly.

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