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Let’s assume you’re getting absolute time stamps or arrival intervals from your Geiger counter. How do you convert those into a uniformly random PRNG seed? They
by tatersolid 5y ago
Let’s assume you’re getting absolute time stamps or arrival intervals from your Geiger counter. How do you convert those into a uniformly random PRNG seed? They will all be biased to a small range depending on your radiation source and measurement apparatus.
Secondly, non-cryptographic PRNGs leak their state from their outputs.
This is a solved problem. Many academic and engineering hours have been put into real solutions. Dear reader, please use a recognized secure scheme instead of the amateur ad-hoc approach recommended up-thread. It has no theoretic or engineering basis. Don’t roll your own crypto.