Electronics Engineer, Amateur Cryptographer with interests in designing real random and psuedorandom bit generators. Randomness is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you are going to get Forrest Gump Jr. You can`t use mathematical means to create true randomness but you can use mathematical means to stretch a short truly random bitstream into a binary string of virtually infinite length that is indistinguishable from the uniform distribution, the distinguisher being a Universal Turing Machine. John Von Neumann Jr. It`s trivial to make a Turing machine that fools all other Turing machines into thinking that they are looking at an unpredictable uniform distribution. Here is the schematic. Alan Turing Jr. ©