Replace "crypto" with "entropic" Peter McGoron (05 May 2026 05:45 UTC)
Re: Replace "crypto" with "entropic" John Cowan (05 May 2026 06:15 UTC)
Re: Replace "crypto" with "entropic" Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (06 May 2026 23:57 UTC)
Re: Replace "crypto" with "entropic" Peter McGoron (07 May 2026 12:11 UTC)
Re: Replace "crypto" with "entropic" John Cowan (07 May 2026 23:43 UTC)
Re: Replace "crypto" with "entropic" Ray Dillinger (15 May 2026 07:08 UTC)

Re: Replace "crypto" with "entropic" Peter McGoron 07 May 2026 12:10 UTC

 > I'll consider it, but at the moment I see no major advantage to
'entropic', except for the one mentioned by von Neumann's in his
comments to Claude Shannon: "[N]o one really knows what entropy is,
so in a debate you will always have the advantage."

I'm in favor of "anything except 'crypto"'. "Entropic," "nonrepeatable,"
"unseedable," etc.

 > If I understand correctly, this would give you
 >
 >    (srfi 271 crypto)
 >    (srfi 271 repeatable)
 >    (srfi 271 xorshift)
 >    (srfi 271 xoshiro256++),

I meant what you wrote after:

 >     (srfi 271 crypto)
 >     (srfi 271 repeatable)
 >     (srfi 271 repeatable xorshiro256++)

-- Peter McGoron