On 2005-11-02, Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Doesn't your OS have an entropy-gathering RN generator built-in?
>
> Alternatively, if you want lots of high-quality random numbers, buy
> a cheap web camera: http://www.lavarnd.org/.
The thermal noise present in a CCD sensor is a good source of
random bits, but I don't get what all the stuff about taking
"snapshots of a physical chaotic process" has to do it.
> Using data from the Internet is just a bad idea.
I think that the timing of certain network events is one of the
Linux kernel's entropy sources.
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