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From: scott
Date: 4 Aug 2015 04:55:14
Message: <55c07df2$1@news.povray.org>
>> I wonder how long before GPU gets a hardware-based randomness source?
>> (It can't be that hard to sample a little thermal noise in hardware,
>
> Well, GPUs should at least be able to provide plenty thermal for the
> noise ;)

Yes :-)  It's not hard to sample the thermal noise, the problem is how 
to sample it billions of times per second with enough resolution to be 
useful.


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