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2. Do you need a pre-arranged ring on your cell phone?
4. Matt writes in:
There are companies that register domain names for you, companies that register domains and then sell them to you, and now companies that come up with unregistered domain names that you can register: http://www.inventmydomain.com and http://www.pickydomains.com.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on August 6, 2007 at 01:18 PM in Economics | Permalink
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I get a 404 on the Bill Shatner stuff.
Posted by: Garth Wood at Aug 6, 2007 2:00:44 PM
The ID Quantique device is rather pricy, last time I priced the 16Mb/sec PCI card it was over $2000. A more cost effective hardware solution if you need RNG is to use one of the VIA x86-compatible CPU: in addition to an effective quantum-based on-die RNG it includes hardware support for AES at upwards of 20Gb/sec throughput in ECB mode.
The devices were tested independently by Cryptograpy Research, Inc., of San Francisco. Their reviews are available online here:
http://www.cryptography.com/research/evaluations.html
The programming guide (including source for the benchmarking software) can be downloaded from the VIA website:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/downloads/whitepapers/initiatives/padlock/programming_guide.pdf
Posted by: Tom Crispin at Aug 6, 2007 2:27:11 PM
"I get a 404 on the Bill Shatner stuff."
Me too, and now the link is gone. =( I want the Shatner art!
Posted by: Erik at Aug 6, 2007 2:44:48 PM
Sorry people, the Shatner-inspired art was awesome but the link genuinely seems to be done...maybe these related links are good enough: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=shatner-inspired+art
Posted by: Tyler Cowen at Aug 6, 2007 2:52:21 PM
Why purchase random numbers when you can get 'em free off the web?
http://www.random.org/ - From radio noise
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ - From Radioactive decay
http://www.lavarnd.org/ - From a lava lamp!
Posted by: rcriii at Aug 6, 2007 2:59:35 PM
there are polynomies that generate random number without any physical source.Yes, computer can.And anyone with a knowledge of programming can make the software
Posted by: JEAN at Aug 6, 2007 4:42:56 PM
If you need random numbers, why not buy?
http://www.amazon.com/Million-Random-Digits-Normal-Deviates/dp/0833030477/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-4265993-8936030?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186437002&sr=8-1
Do not forget to read the reviews!
Posted by: L Monasterio at Aug 6, 2007 5:53:09 PM
Random number generators do indeed have many very important applications. Here's a recent post on it:
http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/true-random-number-generator-goes.html
Posted by: Chris Meisenzahl at Aug 6, 2007 6:42:42 PM
The random number generator might be for real... However, it might not be. Bruce Schneier regularly denounces products as "snake oil". This product has only one listed certification, from a gaming company GTECH.
A reasonable list of third-party validations and certifications would be a reasonable precondition for using this product.
The product should produce the equivalent of a “one-time” pad. In theory, a cryptographic system based on “one-time” pads is unbreakable. However, implementation flaws can enable such systems to be cracked. Note the success of the Venona project.
Posted by: Peter Schaeffer at Aug 7, 2007 12:12:23 AM
Except that... debugging a numerical simulation (which, of course, one must do, repeatedly) requires repeatable random number generation. As St. Knuth says, random number generation cannot be done randomly.
Posted by: MattF at Aug 7, 2007 7:40:24 AM
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