From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Toaster   wrote:   
   >   
   >im no expert but can't you just amplify thermal (white) noise and just   
   >sample it? it's completely random.   
      
   Yes, but first of all you need to make sure you are only getting thermal   
   noise and not anything else leaking in that might be repetitive.  Secondly   
   the rate at which you can generate random numbers is directly tied to the   
   bandwidth of the noise source.  But this is in fact how hardware RNGs often   
   work.   
   --scott   
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
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