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

[Peter Gutmann]

Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> writes:

>They run a couple of lines at some maximum size, then bin the chips based on
>how much memory is actually good, rounding down to the nearest power of two
>since that's the way the industry has chosen to market them.

Alternatively, running with hacked firmware that reports whatever size they
want to you pay for and relying on the fact that USB keys are typically used
at vastly less than their (alleged) capacity.

Peter.