25 Nov
2008
25 Nov
'08
12:12 p.m.
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:26:22AM -0500, Europus wrote:
Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:26:57AM -0800, Sarad AV wrote:
Is that a better way to generate pseudo random numbers?
No, it's a RNG, not PRNG. 1.7 GBit/s is not a huge improvement over RNGs in VIA C7, IIRC.
On another board, this is being called a PRNG. One point that
No, because this is brownian noise, straight from the quantum floor. PRNGs are deterministic discrete systems. Of course you can whiten a RNG with, say a block cipher like AES.
is raised, if it was truly an RNG then it wouldn't be necessary to mix the outputs from two laser assemblies.
No idea about that. Analog whitening, possibly?