> true random numbers (generated from radioactive decay or somesuch) are both > unpredictable AND statistically random, but they're not so easy to get. In a security project of mine I plan to generate (un)predictable random numbers by implementing an EEPROM based always-increasing counter and encrypting the each output with an algorithm like DES. I believe that this gives me unique "random" numbers that only I can predict (because only I have the secret key).