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Author Topic: What number of digits of a truly-random hex seed is equivalent to a 64-digit hex  (Read 98 times)
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April 24, 2018, 06:06:43 PM
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This is pretty theoretical but really interesting! Human randomness isn't perfect by any means, but it's hard to say by how much.

If I were to think up - manually - 64 'human-random' hexadecimal characters, then how many truly random (i.e: generated from a decent random algorithm) would be equivalent for security purposes?

I'm guessing about 40-50? But I could be way off. Any research in this area?
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