appears to be located at Hotbits. The site describes how to use the site to access random numbers generated by measurements of a Geiger counter. I haven't used this yet myself, but based on the site documents Mr. Walker appears to know what he is doing. Part of the documents indicate that the site's CGI is handled by Perl code:).

Apparently this is the same individual who founded Autodesk.

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Re: Source of genuine random numbers
by xdg (Monsignor) on Apr 11, 2006 at 21:52 UTC

    Hotbits only offers a limited number of bits and generates bits at a modest pace. It's good for seeding a PRNG, though. You should check out Math::Random::MT::Auto, which can be set to seed a very strong PRNG automatically from Hotbits. 

    use Math::Random::MT::Auto qw( rand hotbits );

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Re: Source of genuine random numbers
by DrHyde (Prior) on Apr 12, 2006 at 09:27 UTC
    And my module Net::Random provides a perlish interface to Hotbits as well as to another online source of randomness. Before using it, please read the section of the documentation "Security concerns".
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Re: Source of genuine random numbers
by zshzn (Hermit) on Apr 11, 2006 at 22:05 UTC
    Now to find a solution to test some of the other physical randon number generating methods, such as listed at here

    I want to develop Perl code for random number generation based on hardware that sends photons through a semi-transparent mirror.

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Re: Source of genuine random numbers
by ambrus (Abbot) on Apr 12, 2006 at 09:07 UTC
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