Hornlo/Hold

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Randomness is very difficult--most default (e.g., what you get with a compiler) pseudorandom generators, well, suck. But that's beside the point; I just remembered this interesting site:

[HotBits: Genuine random numbers, generated by radioactive decay]

and wanted to store it away until I found a good spot, or spots, to put it.

There probably should be a (pseudo)random number topic somewhere in the computing articles, but it applies very much to crypto as well. A cursory search for "random" didn't really turn up a useful list of pages, though.

If someone reads this and has any suggestions....

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Some other groovy ways of making random numbers: lavarand.sgi.com - not only does it create random numbers, it looks good too... random.org use radio static. Of course, lavarand's system could be used for any changing digital image: just point a camera at Trafalgar Square and read in your data!

Except that periodic phenomena like traffic, day/night, seasonal, etc., patterns would be a problem if you needed long-term randomness. --loh