[Ian] had a need for a lot of random numbers. There are dozens of commercial offerings when it comes to RNGs, but there are also hundreds of different ways for an electronics hobbyist to shoot random ...

[Zach] sent in a project he’s been working on that brings hardware random number generators to common hardware you might have lying around. It’s called Whirlyfly and it turns an FPGA dev board into a ...

A wide variety of applications, including data encryption and circuit testing, require random numbers. As the cost of the hardware become cheaper, it is feasible and frequently necessary to implement ...

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I don't understand why more processors don't include a proper hardware random number generator. It's a classic case of something that is significantly easier to do in hardware, I'd think. I mean, sure ...

Good sources of random numbers are sometimes hard to come by. Random numbers need to be, well, random, which is something that random number tests can measure, but they also need to be readily ...