Re: Truly Random Numbers On A Quantum Computer??

On 29 Mar 2025 18:38:08 -0300, Mike Spencer wrote:

Talked to a guy at MIT in the 90s who was trying to extract random
numbers from the turbulence of gas surrounding a hard drive.  Never
learned the tech or theoretical details -- above my amateur pay grade.

That is in production use today. I believe it’s a standard part of the
entropy-gathering process in the Linux kernel.