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How To Generate Quantum Random Numbers With A Smartphone Camera

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Bruno Sanguinetti and pals at the University of Geneva in Switzerland have worked out how to generate random numbers on an ordinary smartphone using genuine quantum processes. And they say their new technique can produce random numbers at the rate of 1 megabit per second, more than enough for most security applications.

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/602f88552b64