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During the last 4 years, chaotic waveforms for random number generation found a deep interest within the community of analogue broadband chaotic optical systems. Earlier investigations on chaos-based RNG were proposed in the 90s and early 2000, however mainly based on piecewise linear (PL) 1D map, with bit rate determined by analog electronic processing capabilities to provide the PL nonlinear function of concern. Optical chaos came with promises for much higher bit rate, and entropy sources based on high complexity (high dimensional) continuous time (differential) dynamics. More specifically in 2009, Reidler published a paper entitled “An optical ultrafast random bit generator”, in which they presented a physical system for a random number generator based on a chaotic semiconductor laser. This generator is claimed to reach potentially the extremely high rate of 300 Gb/s. We report on analysis and …