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layman51last Wednesday at 2:46 AM0 repliesview on HN

Your point about the coin hitting other things to be more unpredictable reminded me of an interesting blog post[1] about generating cryptographically secure random numbers. The memorable part for me is the suggestion of using five coins of different shapes and sizes so they get shaken a consistent number of times in a large cup.

[1]: https://blog.sia.tech/generating-cryptographically-secure-ra...