Quote from: NanoAkron on January 24, 2014, 08:52:54 PM

Quote from: deepceleron on January 24, 2014, 08:22:20 PM

This sounds like a lot of chemical jibberjabber for something that can be done with webcam noise or lava lamps.

One solution I would have is to take a software defined radio such as http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/a-40-softwaredefined-radio

Take the 3 million raw I/Q samples per second of background radio and send the data through about 10000 XORed SHA hashes to get 512 bits a second. Random.

Good point - Altoidnerd, what does your solution offer that these don't?

Noise is not necessarily random at all. So he is saying "take something that is not random and hash it."

My solution would offer random numbers. And you can hash those if you feel like it.

This also is not open source and has generally none of the properties I described that are desireable. This solution may seem to work now but is not guaranteed to be random. Prepared magnetic states are guaranteed to be random and it will work forever, regardless of the progress of cryptanalysis.