On 4 Sep 97 at 16:54, William Chops Westfield wrote: > I am interested to know what application you are doing that > requires 'real' random noise. I have stated previously on this > list a lengthly objection to anything but pseudo-random numbers, > but I could be wrong. > > Security applications require unpredicable random numbers rather > than statistically random numbers. They're quite different (a > pseudo-random number is completely predicable, after all), and Surely a pseudo random number isa statistically random number, but a statistically random number isn't a pseudorandom number? MikeS