Harnessing Quantum Computing for Certified Randomness
by westurner on 3/27/2025, 7:51:17 PM
ScholarlyArticle: "Certified randomness using a trapped-ion quantum processor" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08737-1
Re: different - probably much less expensive - approaches to RNG;
From "Cloudflare: New source of randomness just dropped" (2005) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321797 :
> Another source of random entropy better than a wall of lava lamps:
>>> "100-Gbit/s Integrated Quantum Random Number Generator Based on Vacuum Fluctuations" https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.010330
100Gbit/s is faster than qualifying noise from a 56 qubit quantum computer?
>> google/paranoid_crypto.lib.randomness_tests
There's yet no USB or optical interconnect RNG based on quantum vacuum fluctuations, though.
ScholarlyArticle: "Certified randomness using a trapped-ion quantum processor" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08737-1
Re: different - probably much less expensive - approaches to RNG;
From "Cloudflare: New source of randomness just dropped" (2005) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321797 :
> Another source of random entropy better than a wall of lava lamps:
>>> "100-Gbit/s Integrated Quantum Random Number Generator Based on Vacuum Fluctuations" https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.010330
100Gbit/s is faster than qualifying noise from a 56 qubit quantum computer?
>> google/paranoid_crypto.lib.randomness_tests
There's yet no USB or optical interconnect RNG based on quantum vacuum fluctuations, though.