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Subject: Re: Simulating the rolling of dices to produce truly random numbers?
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On 10/01/18 17:58, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
> On 11/1/2018 00:55, Robert Wessel wrote:
>>
>> Or you could use real dice:
>>
>> http://gamesbyemail.com/news/diceomatic
>>
>> One of my favorite pieces of over-engineering.  Be sure to watch the
>> video.
>>
> 
> Could you shrink the whole thing into the size of a capacitor, and make 
> it accessible by electronics? :)
> 

Yes - get a high resolution g-sensor or micro-mechanical gyro, and use 
the lowest few bits.  There is always enough shaking (at least here on 
earth) to give high entropy on them.