Re: Simulating the rolling of dices to produce truly random numbers?

From	Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c, comp.lang.ada, comp.programming, comp.databases.xbase.fox, comp.lang.clipper
Subject	Re: Simulating the rolling of dices to produce truly random numbers?
Followup-To	comp.lang.c
Date	2018-01-10 13:23 -0500
Organization	The Pitcher Digital Freehold
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Scott Lurndal wrote:

> Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> writes:
>>"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Is it possible? Any existing algorithms or published papers?
>>
>>There are a zillion ways to generate truly random numbers, all based on
>>somehow reading a suitably random input -- no need to simulate dice.
> 
> When I was at SGI, a couple of colleagues published a paper
> on using a Lava Lamp as a source of randomness in a random
> number generator.

Which the company "Cloudflair" uses today to generate random numbers for 
encryption purposes

https://www.fastcodesign.com/90137157/the-hardest-working-office-design-in-
america-encrypts-your-data-with-lava-lamps
-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills, We Trust"
PGP public key available upon request

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