From: mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere   
      
   Richard Kettlewell  writes:   
      
   > A lot of people are pushing QRNGs of various kinds right now. I've yet   
   > to be convinced, personally.   
      
   As a tech and math amateur, I made a setup to try to extract random   
   numbers from serial images of a plasma ball taken by a consumer-grade   
   web cam.  Really random stuff happening in there, right?  I never got   
   any results, despite experiments with various datum selection   
   strategies, image formats etc. that were any where near acceptable.   
      
   The concept still seems to me to be potentially usable, but   
   whaddoiknow?   
      
   Talked to a guy at MIT in the 90s who was trying to extract random   
   numbers from the turbulence of gas surrounding a hard drive.  Never   
   learned the tech or theoretical details -- above my amateur pay   
   grade.   
      
   --   
   Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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