Great article describing Intel's latest hardware-based RNG

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Todd — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:54:50 GMT

It's a big deal, because it's really the first time anyone has "cracked the code" on how to make an all-digital random number generator that is not predictable. It will have huge benefits of (1) being much faster and producing far greater quantities of random numbers in a very short time, (2) use far less power, making it run cooler, (3) will be able to be manufactured in much smaller chipsets (based on much smaller die sizes), enabling this advanced ability within smaller devic... [ More ]

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JADELottery — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:36:35 GMT

You can hear a random generator on your stereo when nothing is playing on it. Just crank up the volume up to max and listen for the hissing noise, that's a random generator. On your old analog TV, if you still have one, you could see it by tuning to a station that has no broadcast on it. The dots you see on the screen are a visual random generator.

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Boney526 — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:40:12 GMT

This is quite interesting. Of course - it's far from perfect, but they've even figured out a rudimentary way to compensate for the fact that each chip would be slightly different and produce different bias results.

Original Blog Entry: Great article describing Intel's latest hardware-based RNG

Todd — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:13:08 GMT

Here is a fantastic article describing some historical perspective on random number generation, and how it has morphed into Intel's latest digital random number generator, which soon will be embedded within Intel microprocessors.

The new process generates random numbers at the rate of 3 gigabits per second!

There will no longer be a need for analog random number generators, such as radiactive decay and the random movement of lava lamps.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/behind-intels-new-randomnumber-generator/0

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