True random is almost impossible for computers to generate. The biggest issue is that the algorithms are known and they are generally seeded with numbers that aren’t quite random.
Computers can generate numbers that are close to random, but will still have enough data to reverse engineer.
True random, or the closest we have, is atmospheric noise or tracking points from radioactive decay.
Yes, and most modern hardware afaik, includes hardware random number generators that use that random noise… so it IS random. I get that randomization functions produce “shadows” but we haven’t relied on those in 20+ years sans hardware random number generation in most systems.
That’s what I learned in CS, but that was last century. There is an entire field of hardware random number generators now, that may well be a scam, but I’d like to see SOME evidence before I accept that is a scam.
That’s a very waxing philosophical basis on which to declare HRNGs a sham. If anyone had working proof of that, they’d be owning boxes across the web like during the 2000’s Debian bad randoms issue.
As far as I’m aware, conventional computers have been producing true randoms for 20-odd years…
True random is almost impossible for computers to generate. The biggest issue is that the algorithms are known and they are generally seeded with numbers that aren’t quite random.
Computers can generate numbers that are close to random, but will still have enough data to reverse engineer.
True random, or the closest we have, is atmospheric noise or tracking points from radioactive decay.
Yes, and most modern hardware afaik, includes hardware random number generators that use that random noise… so it IS random. I get that randomization functions produce “shadows” but we haven’t relied on those in 20+ years sans hardware random number generation in most systems.
I though it was more similar to pseudo-RNG than true RNG?
Edit: Read that somewhere in the Princeton’s University project called the global consciousness.
That’s what I learned in CS, but that was last century. There is an entire field of hardware random number generators now, that may well be a scam, but I’d like to see SOME evidence before I accept that is a scam.
It’s not. https://scribe.rip/@J_Bowen04/why-there-probably-is-no-such-thing-as-true-randomness-b99fa3ca321d
That’s a very waxing philosophical basis on which to declare HRNGs a sham. If anyone had working proof of that, they’d be owning boxes across the web like during the 2000’s Debian bad randoms issue.