On 04/08/2017 03:27 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
There are multiple large books published about it. There are financial-industry-quality high-speed hardware random number generators on the market, used for generating crypto keys. Some are quite elaborate, using very fancy algorithms to de-bias the number stream. Some use reverse-biased P-N junctions as their initial source, and some even use tiny bits of radioactive materials coupled to scintillation crystals and photodiodes. It's a fascinating field. Generating true randomness is actually very, very hard.
Simple game for kids :)
Yes, of course. I just thought you might be interested in some background.
I am to an extent. Here's an article I wrote last summer: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/quantum-physics-meets-it-security/