* Marc LeBrun <mlb@well.com> [Feb 17. 2012 16:55]:
="Eugene Salamin" <gene_salamin@yahoo.com> all this pseudorandom number garbage will become obsolete.
Perhaps not entirely; there could remain some utility in being able to, say, rerun simulations exactly.
Reproducibility is very often an absolute must (e.g. for physical simulations whose results get published). I do not think an on-chip random number generator is needed for crytographic purposes, we just need a decent entropy source (crank up input gain on the sound card and cycle-and-XOR 1024-bit chunks over 60 sec, this should be good enough, I speculate. Also some not-too-silly circuitry for <= 1 Dollar should do the job very well). Btw. /dev/random and /dev/urandom (under Linux) should do the trick already. In cases of paranoia: take a one minute stretch of images from your web-cam while moved around, feed into something like md5 or SHA. _Quality_ entropy.