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This is a statement appearing in the book about equidistribution.
This is a very slippery statement. Any property of the full period is not a property of full randomness.
Say, you have a w-bit generator with w-bit output. To be "truly random", every output must be possible. OK, so your generator generates every output.
But now it is necessarily equidistributed: it generates each value exactly once along its period. if it was truly random, after O(sqrt(2^w)) outputs you should find collisions (i.e., duplicate outputs), but you won't because collisions can happen only after 2^w outputs.
You can do the same with any generator with state size kw—just look for blocks of kw bits. They must all appear (it's random, right) but then you won't find collisions at the right time.
In essence, whenever you make a statement about the full period, you can turn it into whatever you want, depending on the viewpoint.
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This is a statement appearing in the book about equidistribution.
This is a very slippery statement. Any property of the full period is not a property of full randomness.
Say, you have a w-bit generator with w-bit output. To be "truly random", every output must be possible. OK, so your generator generates every output.
But now it is necessarily equidistributed: it generates each value exactly once along its period. if it was truly random, after O(sqrt(2^w)) outputs you should find collisions (i.e., duplicate outputs), but you won't because collisions can happen only after 2^w outputs.
You can do the same with any generator with state size kw—just look for blocks of kw bits. They must all appear (it's random, right) but then you won't find collisions at the right time.
In essence, whenever you make a statement about the full period, you can turn it into whatever you want, depending on the viewpoint.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: