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True random number generator goes online

Posted July 19, 2007 9:21 AM

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A 'true' random number generator that relies on the unpredictable quantum process of photon emission has gone online providing academic and scientific community access to true random numbers free of charge. A group of computer scientists from Ruder Boškovic Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, developed and launched the Quantum Random Bit Generator Service (QRBGS) whose range of applications spans fields as diverse as advanced scientific simulations, cryptographic data protection and security applications, as well as virtual entertainment - including online gambling and computer games.

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07/19/2007 3:24 PM

I remember being amused when I first came across a table of random numbers in a mathematical tables book on a QA course.

The lecturer took great delight in answering the question

'How do you read them off?'

by saying... 'Any way you like!'

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07/19/2007 11:48 PM

I remember having scraggy books with random number tables, logs and all that. We used to have silly mechanical 'calculators'. You set the cogs then cranked the handle round loads of times ( obviously trying to see how fast you could go, with the slight hope of breaking it). I wonder where all those machines ended up. They looked like some sort of weird code-machine. I'd love to have one now for a bit of retro fun on my desk.

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