John Larkin wrote:

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:53:55 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


Jim Thompson wrote:

I'd like to conjure up a random bit generator.

Just feed it a clock and have it generate random bits.

74HC... components preferred... I have most everything in that family
in my parts bin ;-)


XOR some of Sloman's messages. ;-)

Those aren't very random. He keeps saying the same stuff, over and
over.


If you XOR enough of them, the typos add up into a random mess.

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