A hardware random number generator for your FPGA

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[Zach] sent in a project he's been working on that brings hardware random number generators to common hardware you might have lying around. It's called Whirlyfly and it turns an FPGA dev board into a hardware random number capable of outputting random bits over a USB connection at 3 Mbps. Previously, the whirlygig ran on a custom CPLD that interfaced to a *nix box and provided high quality … [Read more...]