[time-nuts] are any time-nuts also random-nuts?
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Dec 23 19:26:25 UTC 2009
In message <0F83896E292444AFA019E8589F9C7700 at vectron.com>, "Bob Camp" writes:
>Hi
>
>If you do a Google for SIGTOT you head off to another bunch of people who
>hook RNG's up to various things. My *guess* is that they likely hooked one
>up to a computer back in the 1940's...
Interestingly, this does not seem to be the case. It was thought about
at various points, but everybody reached the same conclusion: too slow,
and went with PRNG instead.
>As far as I know, the first RNG to be connected to a computer was this
>one:
> http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/DASK_rng.pdf
The danes reached the same conclusion, but not until after they actually
built their device...
Poul-Henning
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