On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Justin Richards wrote: > Unfortunately I don't understand > *but still loses you a fairly significant amount of entropy* > Most good treatments of this sort descend rather quickly into mathematical and statistical discussions. For a less technical view, you can pretty much regard "entropy" as "randomness". The opposite of that, being "order". And most well-meaning, though uneducated attempts to "improve randomness" ("Hey, I know, we'll run it through this randomizer 10 times!") result in weaker encryption, not stronger. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .