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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: x === x
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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:
>>I don't know of an uncontroversial and universally agreed-upon definition,
>>so I won't try to offer one.
>
>   I'd say, a bit source is truly random when the probability
>   of any party to correctly guess the next bit is 0.5.

I think that's pretty reasonable, but what about an algorithmic PRNG,
seeded by (unobserved) thermal noise and distributed in a tamper-proof
hardware package?

<snip>
-- 
Ben.