[liberationtech] TEXTCOMBINE-REV, A software for combining text files to obtain high-quality pseudo-randomness in practice (replacing an earlier retracted software)

[Cecilia Tanaka]

I know you don't like to be called Professor, but you were being my
teacher, my professor while I was feeling fear and much pain in the
hospital.  I thank you very much for sincerely sharing your software with
us.  Some will hate, some will love, but the point is knowing how many
efforts, how much time you've spent doing something special for sharing
with the world.  Thank you very much for it.  I am very proud!  :D

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On Aug 31, 2017 7:01 PM, "mok-kong shen" <mok-kong.shen at t-online.de> wrote:


An earlier software of mine, TEXTCOMBINE-SP, posted to this group was not
satisfactory due a bug in a function employed in its design and was
retracted.

I am posting now its replacement TEXTCOMBINE-REV which has been carefully
tested and has a fairly good performance IMHO. The following is extracted
from its
Prologue:

# What has been achieved by the present software can be tersely summarized
as
# follows, assuming the general case where the text files are sufficiently
# large:
#
# (1) The generated byte sequences pass, via design specifications of the
#     software, Maurer's universal test and the autocorrelation test for all
#     d in the range [1, 16] as well as the ENT test with an entropy value
#     according to it of at least 7.99 bits per byte. The software is namely
#     coded such that it would give up, reporting failure, after a certain
#     specified maximum amount of processing has been done without finding
#     a solution.
#
# (2) An extensive expermiment of the present author done on all different
#     combinations, totalling 3060 in number, of 4 source materials (of size
#     600 KB each) taken from 18 different books of English literature
#     downloaded from Project Gutenberg resulted in the following:
#
#     (a) No case of failure was ever encountered. On the contrary, the
above
#         mentioned processing limit, which is in terms of rounds of certain
#         preprocessing of source materials before they are xor-ed together,
#         was by far not being approached in the experiment. For details,
see
#         Epilogue.
#
#     (b) The worst case of entropy according to ENT in the experiment was
#         higher than 7.995 bits per byte and the average CPU-time was less
than
#         15 sec on author's PC.

The software is available at http://mok-kong-shen.de

M. K. Shen
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