Re: Could this be applied to random(4)?

Am Freitag, 27. Mai 2016, 13:38:05 schrieb Sandy Harris:

Hi Sandy,

A theoretical paper on getting provably excellent randomness from two
relatively weak input sources.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-technique-produces-real-randomness

This document describes extractors. Those extractors are intended to combine 
*independent* sources with weak entropy.

None of our sources we have in add_*_randomness are independent.

In addition, I am not sure why this research is so hyped. I think that the 3-
source extractor described in [1] is more efficient and easier to implement

[1] "Extracting Randomness Using Few Independent Sources" by Boaz Barak, 
Russell Impagliazzo, Avi Wigderson

Ciao
Stephan