I have to confess that it niggles me to hear hardware RNG's dubbed "true", given that any perceived advantage they might yield is based entirely on theoretical models of how reality behaves --- models which in the past have invariably been superseded as observations improve, and which in the case of quantum mechanics remain based upon questionable logical foundations. But that's incidental to my purpose, which is to suggest another situation in which software generators seem unavoidable: low-discrepancy "QRNG"s for Monte-Carlo integration, etc. --- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence Fred Lunnon On 3/21/16, Eugene Salamin via math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Here's a company that is marketing true random number generators based on quantum effects, apparently fluctuations in the intensity of light.
http://www.whitewoodencryption.com/
-- Gene
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