From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Sun Sep 01 2002 - 05:59:07 MDT
On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, scerir wrote:
> A "true" random number generator is this
> http://www.gap-optique.unige.ch/Prototypes/QRNG/default.asp
1) all I see is a picture of a box next to a number of claims. Depending
on my level of paranoia, I can accept these claims at face value, take
a box apart and analyse it, or just reject it and roll my own entropy
generator.
2) I have no evidence that QM sources are any more random that macroscale
noise sources, in fact they could be a lot less random. A microphone
stuck into a turbulent air stream is a much more complicated system
that a single-photon source and a beam splitter.
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