True random numbers
HotBits offers true random numbers via the web. The numbers are generated based on the measurement of the time between radioactive decay events of a 85Kr-sample (Krypton-85 exhibits beta decay to Rubidium-85). The random bytes are available in various formats and they are genuinely random, due to the inherent quantum mechanical uncertainty of the radioactive decay.
[update May 19th, 2006: Spelling corrected]
May 19th, 2006 10:41
Since your always so picky with Orthogiraffy:
Shouldn’t it be “quantum mechanical uncertainty”?
May 19th, 2006 13:00
Of course it should be, thanks for the notice. Don’t know where that “ly” came from!