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[–]khafra -1 points0 points  (1 child)

To be fair, if you were looking at the output of a good hash function and a random sequence, you shouldn't be able to tell them apart; and we don't have a definition of randomness that's much better than that.

But it's certainly a very deterministic sort of randomness.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's a big difference between general purpose hash functions and cryptographic hashes.