From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Richmond  writes:   
   [...]   
   > Random is without a predictable pattern or plan.   
      
   I can think of worse definitions.   
      
   From the original article:   
      
       As deterministic systems, classical computers cannot create true   
       randomness on demand. As a result, to offer true randomness in   
       classical computing, we often resort to specialized hardware that   
       harvests entropy from unpredictable physical sources, for instance,   
       by looking at mouse movements, observing fluctuations in   
       temperature, monitoring the movement of lava lamps or, in extreme   
       cases, detecting cosmic radiation. These measures are unwieldy,   
       difficult to scale and lack rigorous guarantees, limiting our   
       ability to verify whether their outputs are truly random.   
      
   Physical sources can be found in pretty much every commodity CPU for the   
   last decade . So not that “difficult to scale” apparently.   
      
   A lot of people are pushing QRNGs of various kinds right now. I’ve yet   
   to be convinced, personally.   
      
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   https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/   
      
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