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Jim Choate wrote:
> > > If you can't develop a RNG in software (ie you'd be in a
> > > state of sin), what makes you think you can do it using
> > > -only- digital gates in hardware? You can't.
James A. Donald:
> > Classic Choatian physics.
> >
> > Of course you can.
Jim Choate:
> Not if you use -only- digital gates and derived functions (eg
> flip flop or a shift register)
One can build a true random generator using a two resistors, a
capacitor, three unbuffered inverters and a shift register. A
second shift register and an XOR gate will serve to quite
adequately whiten the output.
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James A. Donald
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