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runs my Random Number Generator....

Now that you've published your seeds...

... we just need to manipulate earthquakes and solar flares to control his PRNG.

Typically I think of compromising the secrecy of inputs as the main RNG attack vector, but controlling the inputs is even better!

Just the thing for us that live inside dormant volcanoes with several rockets ready to launch at any time.

It's funny, just as you're beginning to think that the Quakeflarinator may not have been a viable investment, the universe provides.

There is also this one

The random numbers are generated in real-time in our lab by measuring the quantum fluctuations of the vacuum.

The least-significant bits of pixels on any camera give you far more true entropy than you could ever use.

I would be really interested in a write up of this!

How do you seed when there's no activity on all three fronts?

I fall back on real time neutrino event detection :-) https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/amon_hese_events.html

Data hasn't come in since 2019. Is that because none have been detected since? Or did the program halt?

Just a slow time for neutrinos. Any RNG can be expected to produce a sequence of zeros lasting two years, if you leave it long enough.

That's not a very useful RNG then.

Is it truly random though?