1.7 GBit/s RNG by laser feedback

Europus europus at gmail.com
Tue Nov 25 08:26:22 PST 2008


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
is raised, if it was truly an RNG then it wouldn't be necessary
to mix the outputs from two laser assemblies.

Ulex





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