ciphergoth comments on Frequentist Magic vs. Bayesian Magic - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Wei_Dai 08 April 2010 08:34PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 08 April 2010 10:54:10PM 1 point [-]

How hard is it to "crack" a pseudorandom number generator? Say, one used to generate cards in an online poker game?

Comment author: ciphergoth 10 April 2010 09:48:48AM 2 points [-]

Another word for a strong pseudorandom number generator is a "stream cipher".

(This isn't strictly true, but close enough)