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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Truly Random Numbers On A Quantum Computer??
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 20:56:58 -0400 (EDT)
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Toaster  <toaster@dne3.net> 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

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