[Karl] was in need of a hardware random number generator, but is needs had a few caveats: it needed to be cheap, and sufficiently random. Random number generation can get quite crazy with Geiger tubes ...
Because computers don't understand words or phrases in the same way people can, they speak a language of their own, using only two symbols: 0 and 1. This computing parlance is known as binary code, ...
Using some shift registers and exclusive OR gates, it is possible to construct what is known as a psuedo random code generator. Depending on what taps are used on the shift register, a sequence of up ...