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I believe some (all?) new Intel processors have built-in hardware components which are a source of truly random numbers.
by martinpw 9y ago
I believe some (all?) new Intel processors have built-in hardware components which are a source of truly random numbers.
- dahart 9y agoI just read about it, and it looks like a very strong and fast RNG. https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/behind-intels-new-randomnumber-generator https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/behind-intels-n... But, fwiw, this isn’t “truly” random in the quantum sense. It’s only difficult to predict as far as anyone knows, but is still built on deterministic processes. Radiation, on the other hand, is (as far as anyone knows) physically “truly” non-deterministic.