From: mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  writes:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Cool.  I hope my friend, with whom I've lost contact, has been able to   
   cash in on the  development, either academicaally or financially.   
      
   --   
   Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada   
      
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