It's difficult to have meaningful discussion (w/ regard to randomness) when involving more philosophical principles. For those who believe wholeheartedly in a deterministic universe, the concept is utter nonsense.
That's why it's important that pragmatic folk focus on practical and statistical randomness, rather than universal randomness.
By practical, I mean that the information required to predict generated numbers is simply not available. It may exist; it may not; but regardless, it's inaccessible to those in need of it.
In this case, I'm not certain if sufficient thread-scheduling information is available to derive accurate predictions, or if separate processes could be of effect without altering the speed at which RNG state mutation occurs simultaneously. Being interdependent on other thread & process CPU usage, my approach might be another case of "the act of observation changing the thing observed".
But then again, I'm know little of both cryptography and CPU scheduling. This comment, like this project, is largely speculative.
The issue I've always had with this & dakarand are that they might not be easily predictable, but it is probably possible to influence their output into something you can more easily predict.
It's difficult to have meaningful discussion (w/ regard to randomness) when involving more philosophical principles. For those who believe wholeheartedly in a deterministic universe, the concept is utter nonsense.
That's why it's important that pragmatic folk focus on practical and statistical randomness, rather than universal randomness.
By practical, I mean that the information required to predict generated numbers is simply not available. It may exist; it may not; but regardless, it's inaccessible to those in need of it.
In this case, I'm not certain if sufficient thread-scheduling information is available to derive accurate predictions, or if separate processes could be of effect without altering the speed at which RNG state mutation occurs simultaneously. Being interdependent on other thread & process CPU usage, my approach might be another case of "the act of observation changing the thing observed".
But then again, I'm know little of both cryptography and CPU scheduling. This comment, like this project, is largely speculative.