From: Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>
Subject: Re: Simulating the rolling of dices to produce truly random numbers?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:23:17 -0500
Date: 2018-01-10T13:23:17-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p35lmk$6vn$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: FPs5C.130788$ET6.122210@fx38.iad
Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> writes:
>>"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Is it possible? Any existing algorithms or published papers?
>>
>>There are a zillion ways to generate truly random numbers, all based on
>>somehow reading a suitably random input -- no need to simulate dice.
>
> When I was at SGI, a couple of colleagues published a paper
> on using a Lava Lamp as a source of randomness in a random
> number generator.
Which the company "Cloudflair" uses today to generate random numbers for
encryption purposes
https://www.fastcodesign.com/90137157/the-hardest-working-office-design-in-
america-encrypts-your-data-with-lava-lamps
--
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills, We Trust"
PGP public key available upon request
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-10 15:50 Simulating the rolling of dices to produce truly random numbers? Mr. Man-wai Chang
2018-01-10 16:52 ` Robert Wessel
2018-01-10 16:55 ` Mr. Man-wai Chang
2018-01-10 16:59 ` Robert Wessel
2018-01-10 17:00 ` Mr. Man-wai Chang
2018-01-10 17:16 ` Robert Wessel
2018-01-10 16:55 ` Robert Wessel
2018-01-10 16:58 ` Mr. Man-wai Chang
2018-01-10 21:07 ` David Brown
2018-01-10 17:20 ` Joe Pfeiffer
2018-01-10 17:22 ` Mr. Man-wai Chang
2018-01-10 17:32 ` Robert Wessel
2018-01-10 18:15 ` Richard Heathfield
2018-01-10 19:09 ` Robert Wessel
2018-01-10 17:38 ` Joe Pfeiffer
2018-01-10 17:48 ` Mr. Man-wai Chang
2018-01-10 18:43 ` Joe Pfeiffer
2018-01-10 18:20 ` Scott Lurndal
2018-01-10 18:23 ` Lew Pitcher [this message]
2018-01-10 20:29 ` Chris M. Thomasson
2018-01-10 22:54 ` Mace Ayres
2018-01-11 1:31 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2018-01-11 12:45 ` AdaMagica
2018-01-11 14:40 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2018-01-12 2:32 ` Mace Ayres
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