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| Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Mike Spencer |
| Re: Truly Random Numbers On A Quantum Co |
| 29 Mar 25 22:08:11 |
From: ldo@nz.invalid On 29 Mar 2025 18:38:08 -0300, Mike Spencer wrote: > 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. That is in production use today. I believe it’s a standard part of the entropy-gathering process in the Linux kernel. --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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