Re: [math-fun] provable pseudo-randomness viewed as about information loss

I wonder if the children of computer scientists play a game in which n-1 children sit in a circle and the nth goes around the outside, tapping players on the shoulder and saying "Blum" a pseudorandom nimber of times before shouting "Shub!". Jim Propp On Thursday, March 31, 2016, Warren D Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> wrote:

The Blum Blum Shub "provably unpredictable" psu-random number generator is just repeated squaring modulo (p*q) where p and q are each large primes that each are 3 mod 4. [etc.]