> Abstract
This article describes a method to turn astronomical imaging into a random number generator by using the positions of incident cosmic rays and hot pixels to generate bit streams. We subject the resultant bit streams to a battery of standard benchmark statistical tests for randomness and show that these bit streams are statistically the same as a perfect random bit stream.
An honest question, but couldn't the exact same results be achieved with a simple USB webcam pointed at... well, anything?
An honest question, but couldn't the exact same results be achieved with a simple USB webcam pointed at... well, anything?