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Re:Race Conditions == Random Number Generation by kyberias on Friday June 27, 2014 @06:32AM (#7953418)
"Patterns"? Of course there are patterns. If there were no patterns, that would be suspicious. Do you claim to be able to look at a picture of a random number generator data and determine the quality based on that? You do realize that even perfectly random data may have patterns?
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Re:Race Conditions == Random Number Generation by dasmithii on Friday June 27, 2014 @03:43PM (#7955932)
It serves mostly as a litmus test against blatant predictability. As said above, sequential lines or otherwise obvious shapes would indicate poor randomness.

I wouldn't evaluate a generator solely on the basis of a bytemap. But these visualizations are of value.

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