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Re:Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack by nexuist on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:55AM (#23855901)
How would you write a regex that does this? How do you determine whether a string of characters is random?
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Re:Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack by Blackthorn on Thursday July 16, 2020 @01:52AM (#23856195)
The classic way to do it is see how well it compresses, though that requires a certain minimum length.
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Re:Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack by Cthulhu_ on Thursday July 16, 2020 @06:02AM (#23857416)
You can probably calculate the entropy / randomness of a string via a fairly simple algorithm.
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