A Quantum Random News Story
Writing by stickman on Thursday, 19 of July , 2007 at 1:03 pm
Apologies for a VERY geeky news story but it is very cool at the same time!
In brief, truly random numbers are very hard to generate, as most things (Computer CPU) etc always start from the same point (called finite state I believe), you will see numbers repeated.
Random numbers are a key part of cryptography (for instance when you buy a book online via a secure web site).
I am not going to go waste anybodies time by going into too much depth, as it is not really my field and there are many, many better articles out there. However I will provide some links at the bottom of the page.
Anyway back to the Quantum Random Bit Generator (QRBG) Service, which will generate a random number for you (free). The ideal is this will be used mainly by the scientific community. Much more information (almost too much!) about this service is available at QRBG
And some good starting background links:
Random number generation
Quantum Randomness
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