Random numbers

[der.hans]

Am 28. Mar, 2002 schwätzte John (EBo) David so:

> there was a scientific amirican artical about 10 years ago on building a
> chaos white noise random generator usinging a diode operated in it's
> unstable region and sampled...  They got the thing to sit there and
> wonder all over the place.  Appearently the dude that made it was able
> to get the built for just a couple of dollars at radio shack.  You would
> likely be able to build it with an old junk radio or TV ;-)

So why don't we have these for computers? Do they interfere with other
stuff? Does the rest of the computer interfere with them? Are they too slow
or not really random with today's computing capabilities and speeds?

ciao,

der.hans
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