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Boffins pull off quantum leap in true random number generation

Scott Glancy

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I am one of the scientists working on this project. Our goal is to incorporate a quantum random number generator based on this prototype into the NIST Randomness Beacon, which will allow you to play with it. An even longer term and more ambitious goal is to shrink its size so that it can fit into a mobile phone, but that will take significant advances in the technology and years of work. If you can be patient, there is no need to call your real estate agent.

On the other hand, we hope that other organizations will make public random sources that are compatible with NIST's. Then one can combine output from all sources to create a random source that is more trustworthy than any single source.

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