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Re:Encryption is less secure than we thought by CatMtKing on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @01:29PM (#6212917)
That doesn't sound identically distributed to me... am I missing something?
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Re:Encryption is less secure than we thought by thesteamboat on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @01:46PM (#6213043)
It's not that the P(heads)=P(tails), but rather the coins are identical to each other. Each throw of the coin has the same probability and is independent of other throws of the coin.
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