Periodic Reporting for period 2 - EXT (Randomness Extractors: Constructions and Applications)

A randomness extractor is an algorithm that produces, or "extracts", truly random bits from an imperfect source of randomness. Extractors can be traced back to the work of von Neumann from the 1950-s and was established as a research field in the late 80-s and early 90-s...