World's Fastest Random Number Generator from 'Sounds of Silence'

by yogrish on 4/15/2012, 4:56 AM with 5 comments
  • by tzs on 4/15/2012, 6:47 AM

    Here's the researcher's site: http://photonics.anu.edu.au/qoptics/Research/qrng.php

    They link to their paper there, but the link is to a journal with a paywall. Here's a free copy of their paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4438

  • by rheide on 4/15/2012, 9:38 AM

    "Moreover, anyone who downloaded live random numbers from the ANU website will get a fresh and unique sequence of numbers that is different from all other users." - that doesn't sound very random..

  • by pragone on 4/15/2012, 11:21 AM

    I got a little bored and wanted to play around in various languages, so I'm writing a scraper for this: https://github.com/pcragone/anurandom

  • by J3L2404 on 4/15/2012, 1:00 PM

    Although it's not clear from the article it appears to be not so much listening to vacuum noise as reading how the known resonant frequencies are being damped by quantum fluctuations.