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thermal noise?thermal noise?Posted Dec 14, 2007 6:02 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: thermal noise? by NRArnot Parent article: On entropy and randomness
Electrical engineers learn to become deeply fearful of harmonics. They show up everywhere! Thanks to this, (the harmonics, not the fear), I think you'll find that /dev/urandom offers far more random data than anything arriving over cheap hardware. Well, unless that hardware was explicitly designed to avoid harmonics, like the transistor noise RNG on some of Via's chips.
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