On 2013-05-24 14:43, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Peter Brooks
<peter.h.m.bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, thinking about
it, there is probably a source of non-algorithmically-derived 'random'
numbers somewhere on the net that would do the job nicely.
True entropy is usually provided by a source such as /dev/random (on
Unix systems). It's sometimes referred to as "cryptographic"
randomness, due to its necessity in secure encryption work. There are
various ways to get this in a cross-platform way.
os.random() and os.urandom(), particularly.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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