@Scott: would it be fair to say that the P=BPP question boils down to whether one can make a “secure” random source such that the adversarial environment can’t predict it? Is that why the problem is equivalent to having good PRNG? (I’m a physicist, but who thinks he knows some of the terminology of complexity theory—apologies if I’ve misunderstood the terms.)
@Scott: would it be fair to say that the P=BPP question boils down to whether one can make a “secure” random source such that the adversarial environment can’t predict it? Is that why the problem is equivalent to having good PRNG? (I’m a physicist, but who thinks he knows some of the terminology of complexity theory—apologies if I’ve misunderstood the terms.)