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Fast Random Bit Generation

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Science has a paper (and commentary) on generating 250 random terabits per second with a laser. I don’t know how cryptographically secure they are, but that can be cleaned up with something like Fortuna.

EDITED TO ADD (3/12): Here are free versions of the paper and the commentary.

Tags: academic papers, Fortuna, random numbers

Posted on March 11, 2021 at 6:15 AM • 15 Comments

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