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by fnordpiglet 270 days ago
That’s not actually what the paper is about and it does discuss that LEDs did random number generation isn’t new. It’s more about using GaN microLEDs to produce high volume real time random numbers at a very low component, cost, and power. The key emphasis in the paper is on the high rates of number creation - 9Gb/s.