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Category Archives: Cryptography

Cryptography and related things, like entropy and randomness. Not that I understand much of this stuff, but like my other problems, talking about it helps.

Gathering entropy from children

Here is a trick I found that solved an old problem: How can coin flipping ever be fair if only one person chooses head or tail ? I remember Chrissy complaining about that to Jack in an episode of “Three’s Company”. Above the humour, I remember thinking about fair coin flipping back then, many years [...]