alt Hacker NewsStarts interesting, then veers into the usual "true random number" bullshit. Use radioactive decay as source of your random numbers!
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zeroxfe • yesterday at 9:04 PM
> usual "true random number" bullshit
What's bullshit about it? This is how TRNGs in security enclaves work. They collect entropy from the environment, and use that to continuously reseed a PRNG, which generates bits.
If you're talking "true" in the philosophical sense, that doesn't exist -- the whole concept of randomness relies on an oracle.
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How do we know it's truly random?