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One of the earliest models of weak randomness is the Chor-Goldreich (CG) source. A $(t,n,k)$-CG source is a sequence of random variables $X=(X_1,\dots,X_t)\sim(\{0,1\}^n)^t$, where each $X_i$ has min-entropy $k$ conditioned on any fixing of…
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