Re: How can you verify the randomness that's coming from a hardware?
They're going to think a bit about it before just blurting out "777777777777777777777777777777".
I am making analogies, not literal comparisons, which you seem to be misunderstanding.The point of these analogies is that human behavior is not random. You might think you are being random, but you aren't. Not truly. This has been studied and proven.
So think about that. 000 and 111 will happen alot.
So obviously one needs to understand a little about what is the norm. Then go from there.
Which makes thing even less random. Now you are thinking "I know that statistically I "should" have a run of 5 of the same at some point. I've not done that yet, so lets put that in now. Ok. Now we'll do a few much shorter runs of just 1 or 2 the same, because you probably wouldn't have 5 the same immediately followed by another 5 the same. Ok. What next?" And so on and so forth. This is not random. Not even close to it.So obviously one needs to understand a little about what is the norm. Then go from there.
But there's a difference. your unique string has been published so that anyone in the world can get a copy of it. mine wouldn't have since I just generated it out of my head.
Another analogy. I'm simply saying that although you might generate a unique string that no one has generated before, it doesn't mean that string is safe or secure.If humans did not behave randomly (and unpredictably) then the stock market would be a science. Even with bitcoin, no one knows what the price is going to do. Why is that? because we don't know what people are going to do. their behavior is random. completely random. some of them buy, some sell. the overall result of that is anyone's guess.[/quote
The final collective result of the behavior of a group of distinct and disconnected individuals is in no way comparable to a single person picking 0s and 1s.
The final collective result of the behavior of a group of distinct and disconnected individuals is in no way comparable to a single person picking 0s and 1s.
Get one, write down a B or a W, eat it, get the next one. Repeat until nauseous. It's much faster than flipping a coin, and less boring 
But of course there probably isn't an even number of blacks and whites in the bag, and with each one you eat you reduce the odds of that color appearing again. So overall a bad system.