[Cryptography] Photon beam splitters for "true" random number generation ?

[Bill Cox]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Ron Garret <ron at flownet.com> wrote:

>
> > Perhaps such a device has already been built & tested?
>
> Probably not.  The reason is that there are much easier ways to avail
> yourself of (essentially) the same physics.  Thermal noise, for example,
> gives you just as much “true randomness” as quantum measurements (because
> thermal noise is, at root, a quantum effect) but it’s much (much!) easier
> to obtain.
>

If I understand their technology correctly, this company has been selling
them for years
<http://www.idquantique.com/random-number-generation/quantis-random-number-generator/>
.
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