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by amelius 42 days ago
You can already have a good entropy source from a single resistor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%E2%80%93Nyquist_noise

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This is what gets me - entropy is hard, but not that hard. I get it goes against everything a computer is built to do, but so does telling time.