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Old 07-25-2007, 04:25 PM
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Let's assume it is random. That's all well and good, but let me tell you how to hack it:

1) Publish "free" random numbers online using the method.
2) Log all such freely-given random numbers.
3) Give them to the Federal Govt as is probably required under some secret document issued by the CIA which we'll be told doesn't exist, but which our children will find out always has existed.
4) Let some hacker get access to the data stored on some moron's computer and publish it online. This could happen w/o step 3, but in the govt's hands is FAR more likely to occur.

Easy enough, eh?

Personally, I refuse to believe that an ordered process can result in unordered results (though, they may appear unordered as do pseudo-random numbers). Yes, entropy is out there, but I'm confident that it's much more orderly than we currently understand.

I checked out their paper and it states that the "randomness relies on intrinsic randomness of the quantum physical processes of photonic emission in semiconductors and subsequent detection by the photoelectric effect." Has this been proven to be random or is that only a postulation?

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