<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 4:54 PM Kent Borg <<a href="mailto:kentborg@borg.org">kentborg@borg.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2/25/21 6:18 PM, Grant Schultz wrote:<br>
> Sounds like it needs more and more thorough testing, but they claim it <br>
> can produce 250TB/second.<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://phys.org/news/2021-02-scientists-laser-random-ultrafast.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2021-02-scientists-laser-random-ultrafast.html</a><br>
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Can't tell whether the <a href="http://phys.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">phys.org</a> story was written by a human or a <br>
machine*, but whoever wrote it didn't understand the material s/he or it <br>
was writing about.<br>
<br>
I'm sure I don't know enough about laser stuff, but from what I do know, <br>
this could be pure snake oil.<br>
<br>
-kb<br>
<br>
<br>
* Too many grammatical errors to be a machine?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The paper from yale seems to have more info or research.<br><a href="https://news.yale.edu/2021/02/26/random-numbers-faster-laser">https://news.yale.edu/2021/02/26/random-numbers-faster-laser</a><br> <a href="https://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><br>
</div><div>There is likely something useful in this new idea..<br><span style="font-family:Mallory-Light,Mallory,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px;letter-spacing:-0.17px;word-spacing:0.85px">"The unpredictable properties of lasers have been used to generate random numbers before, but"</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Mallory-Light,Mallory,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px;letter-spacing:-0.17px;word-spacing:0.85px"><br></span></div></div><a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/laser-fastest-random-number-generator-computing">https://www.sciencenews.org/article/laser-fastest-random-number-generator-computing</a><br><br clear="all"><div><a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6532/889">https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6532/889</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2018/04/nists-new-quantum-method-generates-really-random-numbers">https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2018/04/nists-new-quantum-method-generates-really-random-numbers</a><br><br><a href="https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/199681492.pdf">https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/199681492.pdf</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">          T o m    M i t c h e l l ( o n   N i f t y E g g )<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>