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PC random number hardware

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NODE 044ff571PC random number hardware jon@balder.us.dell.com (Jon Boede)Mon, 8 Nov 93 15:33:06 PST

Does anyone know of a commerical source (or schematics) for a good random
bitstream generator -- something that you hang off of COM1 and read random
bytes from?

Can anyone refute the claim that you can only generate truly random numbers
using hardware?  I recall seeing a proof that totally random numbers could
only be generated by an infinitely large program.

Jon