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On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:10:06 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 22:19 this Thursday (GMT):
>> On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:48:57 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>
>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>>>
>>>> Weak cryptography is easy to fix. The hard part to fix is weak random
>>>> numbers.
>>> 
>>> Other way round. A bad RNG can be swapped out for a better one with
>>> little or no impact on anything else.
>>
>> Unfortunately, you can never be sure your RNG is good.
> 
> 
> You could always do what random.org does and read background radiation.
> Probably.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generator

Thermal noise is a problem when dealing with weak signals but can be used 
in RNG.