&gt; has better statistical properties<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cryogenius.com&#x2F;hardware&#x2F;isarng&#x2F;diehard.txt" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cryogenius.com&#x2F;hardware&#x2F;isarng&#x2F;diehard.txt</a><p>The hardware generator passes more diehard tests than the LCG. In any case, a true-RNG scheme is supposed to feed into a PRNG. True RNGs feed into sources of entropy, and then you use entropy sources as part of PRNGs to extract more randomness out of them (if you need speed).<p>Or not... if you need &quot;security&quot;. (Stay slow, so you get tons of entropy)<p>&gt; a standard pseudo-random number generator is faster<p>This hardware RNG doesn&#x27;t require a CPU at all. Its an electronics project that can feed into anything.<p>It makes almost no sense to compare a hardware solution against a software one.