Re: lun - Lucky Number

On 3/8/2025 1:10 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

On 3/8/2025 11:11 AM, Stefan Claas wrote:

Richard Heathfield wrote:

On 08/03/2025 18:38, Stefan Claas wrote:

Rich wrote:

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I fail to see any point to it.
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If you can generate a random number, then you already have a random
number.  You can stop here and enjoy using your random number.

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Why do you always have something to "complain" about? Enjoy the software,
it is cool and not so boring like using /dev/urandom.

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It's a NOP. What's so cool about a NOP?

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It demonstrates that even with a NOP you can do cool things.
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Or better instead
of "complaining" do something creative, crypto wise and show it to us too.

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Turning a random number into a random number isn't creative.

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Well, Rich (and maybe you) should also show things to the community here,
which can be discussed, otherwise this place is getting pretty boring.

 What do you think of this shit:
 https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c++/c/7u_rLgQe86k/m/fYU9SnuAFQAJ
 ;^D
 

Here is a comment from the thread... It did not get all that good results when the system was rather "idle" in a sense:
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Right on. I should have made that point clearer. Now, I did generate
some files based on multiple runs of the data and ran some *tests on
them. They did not do to all that great most of the time. However, when
the system was under load, doing something else, the results were much
better. It like you can see the load of a system, through the patterns a
race-condition generates. Almost like you can see how the system was
scheduling threads.
Humm... Could be interesting.
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[*]:FWIW, here is a program I used to run some of the tests:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/random
It works pretty darn good.
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