I'm a 17-year-old student and I spent my vacation building a protocol to test the limits of non-deterministic data sanitization.
Most software-based wipes rely on PRNGs, which are deterministic by nature. I wanted to see if I could build a "Quantum-Safe" bridge using subatomic vacuum fluctuations. I've been pulling entropy from the ANU Quantum RNG API to generate noise for secure media overwriting.
The Question: I'm curious if the community thinks 7.997 is effectively the practical ceiling for API-based QRNG (considering network overhead and local pooling), or if there's a more efficient way to handle the local entropy pool without "diluting" the quantum non-determinism.
zenith_vortex•1h ago
Most software-based wipes rely on PRNGs, which are deterministic by nature. I wanted to see if I could build a "Quantum-Safe" bridge using subatomic vacuum fluctuations. I've been pulling entropy from the ANU Quantum RNG API to generate noise for secure media overwriting.
The Question: I'm curious if the community thinks 7.997 is effectively the practical ceiling for API-based QRNG (considering network overhead and local pooling), or if there's a more efficient way to handle the local entropy pool without "diluting" the quantum non-determinism.