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The bias of unwhitened output of almost any TRNG is hugely biased. For almost anything based on detecting some kind of radiation (which at the same time are exa
by dfox 6y ago
The bias of unwhitened output of almost any TRNG is hugely biased. For almost anything based on detecting some kind of radiation (which at the same time are exactly the kinds of TRNGs that are truly random according to current understanding of physics, not only practically impossible to predict) you are on the order of one bit of entropy per 1024bits of output, not 1000.
- rini17 6y agoThat is an overkill. Measuring time between geiger detector events with 555-like counter is okay with me, it's still simple enough to be fully auditable and the bias is not so tragic.