| # ANU Quantum Node |
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| A compact, working recreation of the SEIT product **ANU Quantum Node** |
| (slug: `anu-node`, language: C11). |
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| SEIT's description: *"Temperature sourced from the Australian National |
| University quantum vacuum fluctuation generator. Physically real |
| randomness — not seeded, not simulated. Every agent decision runs at a |
| temperature that has never existed before and will never exist again."* |
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| ## Mechanism |
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| Each run draws 32 bytes of entropy ("temperature") from a two-tier source: |
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| 1. **Live ANU QRNG JSON API** — `curl` fetches 16-byte hex strings from |
| `https://qrng.anu.edu.au/API/jsonI.php?length=16&type=hex`. The JSON |
| `data` array is parsed by hand (string search + `strchr`, no JSON |
| library). Every string is validated strictly: exactly 32 hex characters, |
| all valid hex digits; the wrong count or malformed JSON is a failure. |
| 2. **Fallback: `getrandom()`** — used on *any* Tier 1 failure: curl |
| missing, non-zero curl exit, timeout (`--max-time 10`), malformed |
| JSON, wrong string length, or non-hex characters. |
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| The program prints which tier supplied the bytes and the drawn bytes as |
| hex. |
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| ## Build & run |
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| ``` |
| make # builds anu_node with gcc -std=c11 -Wall -Wextra -O2 |
| make run # draws 32 bytes, prints source label + hex temperature |
| make clean |
| ``` |
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| Example output: |
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| ``` |
| source: ANU QRNG (live) |
| temperature: 9f3a7c1e02b84d6f51a2c930e8f47d1a |
| ``` |
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| ## What is modeled vs simplified |
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| - **Modeled faithfully:** the two-tier entropy sourcing (live ANU QRNG |
| preferred, `getrandom()` fallback on any failure), strict hand-parsing |
| and validation of the ANU JSON `data` array, explicit source labeling, |
| and the non-repeatability property (no seeding anywhere). |
| - **Simplified / stubbed:** SEIT's full product feeds this temperature |
| into per-agent decisions; this node is the raw randomness source only. |
| There is no agent framework, no temperature-scheduling semantics, and |
| no caching or reuse of draws. The network path is `curl` via `popen` |
| only — the one network call the spec allows. |
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| All code was written fresh for this recreation. No external libraries, |
| no paid dependencies. |
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| ## License |
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| SEIT Functional Source License — Donation-Gated Runtime v1.0 |
| Copyright (C) 2026 Ahmad Ali Parr / SnapKitty Research Lab |
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| Functional, viable source: read, share, and modify freely. Running this |
| software requires a qualifying donation to the licensor. See |
| [LICENSE.txt](LICENSE.txt) for the full terms. No warranty. |
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