Quote from: zemario on March 08, 2015, 03:54:00 PM

Quote from: Abdussamad on March 08, 2015, 02:11:39 PM

Well what is this below if not a scheme?

In that case every possible way of collecting randomness is a scheme. What is probing /dev/urandom everytime you need a random number, if not a scheme?

Obviously, gmaxwel's quote was refering to a simple deterministic function whose input is a known literary work, I'll agree that if it is simple to memorize such a scheme, then it is quite likely that other people could come up with it, then running it against known corpora is a matter of having the resources to do so. Such resources are relatively accessible nowadays.

A sentence from a book, regardless the language is a very bad idea, but it is not a relevant example in the context of this thread.

Quote from: gmaxwell on October 15, 2013, 10:11:40 PM

YOU HAVE A SCHEME? Pfft. THE SPACE OF ALL SCHEMES YOU'RE LIKELY TO HAVE PROBABLY ONLY HAS A FEW BITS OF ENTROPY. RANDOM PHRASE IN A BOOK? THERE ARE ONLY ABOUT 30 BITS OF SENTENCE SELECTION IN A LIBRARY.

OH NO. YOU ARE NOT LISTENING TO ME, ARE YOU?

just dont do it - nothing more to add