1995-10-05 - Simple hardware RNGs
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From: “John A. Thomas” <jathomas@netcom.com>
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From: "John A. Thomas" <jathomas@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 95 05:41:42 PDT
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Subject: Simple hardware RNGs
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Having built devices for generating random data, I can tell you the
problem is more difficult than it appears. The problem is removing
biases and correlations from the process.
A good place to start is Murry, Herschell, "A General Approach for
Generating natural Random Variables", IEEE Transactions on Computers,
December 1970, p. 1210-1213.
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