David Wong

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cryptography, security, and random thoughts

Hey! I'm David, cofounder of zkSecurity, research advisor at Archetype, and author of the Real-World Cryptography book. I was previously a cryptography architect of Mina at O(1) Labs, the security lead for Libra/Diem at Facebook, and a security engineer at the Cryptography Services of NCC Group. Welcome to my blog about cryptography, security, and other related topics.

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True randomness... exists?

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A great article from AskAmathematician about true randomness.

The question is actually geared towards physicists and the tl;dr is: true randomness exists. Take that causality believers.

And as I expected, the experience to prove this is done with photons:

http://www.askamathematician.com/2009/12/q-do-physicists-really-believe-in-true-randomness/

suggested reads:
→ Generating randomness and you're too close to boot? • blog
→ Myths about /dev/urandom • blog
→ Why are people so bothered about truly random numbers? • blog
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True randomness... exists?
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Real-World Cryptography is available from Manning Publications.
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