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by motohagiography 1075 days ago
Is the argument for a small counter that nobody serious will treat it as a significant diversification component or reliable source of entropy, especially in a streaming mode? It's a counter whose function is necesesarily finite and predictable (and reversible?), if not explicitly linear. Intuitively, any substitutions or convolutions derived from it would weaken subsequent operations, no?