For development and debugging you can also just store a sequence of RNs that have been physically generated. Brent On 3/19/2016 12:48 PM, Eugene Salamin via math-fun wrote:
For cryptosecure, I don't see how you can do better than a physical noise or quantum source. Why do computer science people so disdain physical RNG's; it is because they don't involve fun things like algorithm analysis? This annoys me so much that I've made it into a litmus test. When I pick up a book that discusses random number generation, I immediately look to see if physical RNG's are discussed, not necessarily praised, and if not, I ignore the entire book.
Now, there is a place for pseudo-RNG's, and that is if the same sequence of random numbers must be generated again since then the initial seed can represent the entire lengthy sequence.
-- Gene
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