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Computers - Algorithms - Pseudorandom Numbers
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Random.org - True Random Number Service - True random number generator with CORBA and WWW interfaces. Numbers are generated with atmospheric noise. Source code for many clients (Java, Perl, C++, etc.) online.

HotBits: Genuine Random Numbers - HotBits is a service which generates random data from the decay of radioactive material and sends it over the internet.

Random Number Generation, Taygeta Scientific Inc. - Information and articles on random number generation.

The pLab Project - A server on the theory and practice of random number generation.

Pseudo Random Number Generators - Algorithms for good random number generators with theoretical discussion and software examples.

Mersenne Twister: A Random Number Generator - Fast generator of fixed high period implemented in various languages. Includes a paper about the mathematical foundations.

NIST: Random Number Generation and Testing - Project to develop a battery of statistical tests to detect nonrandomness in binary sequences, to produce documentation and a software implementation of these tests, and to provide guidance in the use of these tests.

Luc Devroye: Random Number Generation - Links to downloadable papers, related journals, and links to software.

Segobit Software: Random Number Generator Pro - Windows application to generate several random numbers in a given range, subject to constraints like excluding certain digits.

WWW Virtual Library: Random numbers and Monte Carlo Methods - Links to related conferences, papers, software, webpages, people.

ComScire (Quantum World Corp) - Device driver for random number generation using entropy sources within a PC using no additional hardware. On-line purchase, free download of trial version.

Try to Find Where the Ball Is Hidden - A small test to see how well humans can generate random numbers compared to computer predictions.

Netlib: Random Number Generators - Source code for various random number generators in C and Fortran, including the well-known RANLIB library supporting many continuous and discrete probability distributions.

Pseudo-random Numbers - A guide to the literature.

HENKOS Pseudorandom Number Generator - Presents and evaluates this generator, intended for use as a key generator for a one-time pad cipher.

EntropyPool and Entropy Filter - A demonstration of the EntropyPool, entropy filter and gatherer daemon, gathering random noise from a number of sources. Download random bits or the Java source.

Lavarand - A system by which a pseudorandom number generator is seeded by cryptographic hash of the digital output of a photograph of six Lava Lite lamps.

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