Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by martyb on Friday June 21 2019, @07:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the certain-chaos dept.

Hot on the heels of the news about the League of Entropy, I offer my own analysis of various challenges present in the quest for random bits. Thanks to the exposure of this development by SoylentNews, I dug up my old 2012 proposal and saw that LoE implemented something very similar, but fully automated. Remarkably, it took me some 7 years to realize that my original proposal can be easily adopted for robots, and now I am delighted to share with you a very basic description of the problem, the difficulties, and the implementation details.

And by the way, you may not think that when you see the format, but this is intended as a scholarly article, and it is currently in peer review phase — where it will remain for as long as it is useful — and there are people willing to maintain it. Please feel welcome to offer comments, ideas, corrections via email or xmpp, and I will do my best to create a review journal and credit everyone involved, as appropriate.


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by martyb on Friday June 21 2019, @01:23PM (1 child)

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 21 2019, @01:23PM (#858529) Journal

    I just finished reading the proposal.

    1.) Though the intended audience is sure to know what it stands for, as the intent is to persuade the less-knowledgeable general public, too, I would suggest expanding *all* acronyms on first use. For example: PRNG and RUNE.

    2.) I see the use of symmetric keys as well as public key encryption, but I fail to see the rationale for using one over the other in each case. That could well be due to my limited understanding of the subject matter. Still, I would appreciate an exposition/explanation of of each of them, the properties significant to the discussion, and the rationale for how it was decided to use each of them in each place-of-use.

    3.) Although seemingly tedious, it would help greatly to see the benefits and shortcomings of having 1, 2, and 3 participants in worked-out examples through the proposed mechanism.

    All in all, I must say it was quite readable and I found the discussion to be interesting.

    Thanks for the story submission!

    --
    Wit is intellect, dancing.
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +1  
       Insightful=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Insightful' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   3  
  • (Score: 2) by melikamp on Friday June 21 2019, @03:36PM

    by melikamp (1886) on Friday June 21 2019, @03:36PM (#858579) Journal
    Thanks, these are great suggestions :D