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Re:Convert standard Geiger counter to RNG by kloch on Monday November 13, 2023 @05:03PM (#38256010)
Analysis of PRNG's is difficult and very important:

https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/does-it-beat-the-minimal-st...

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Re:Convert standard Geiger counter to RNG by tptacek on Monday November 13, 2023 @05:36PM (#38256326)
This isn't a security analysis, and PCG isn't a secure random number generator, but it is the case that you can fashion a crude secure random number generator out of a sufficiently large state and a cryptographic hash.
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