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why-o-why 13 hours ago

Sample it with what? An infinite precision ADC?

This is how old temperature-noise based TRNGs can be attacked (modern ones use a different technique, usually a ring-oscillater with whitening... although i have heard noise-based is coming back but i've been out of the loop for a while)

rcxdude 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, sampling is technically an analog operation that is separate from the conversion operation that makes the result digital. But then analog circuits don't ever actually hold a single real number, in practice there is always noise and that in practice limits the precision to less than what can be fairly easily achieved digitally.