Re: /dev/random -- can I enlarge the `randomness stock'?

From: Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
Date: Sun May 21 2000 - 18:21:25 EDT

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    In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.4.21.0005211331360.1348-100000@idoru.mine.nu>,
    Lucca <lucca@acm.org> wrote:
    >For any large-scale use, however, you'll need a hardware random number
    >generator. Depending on where you live, they are more troublesome to
    >purchase legally that heavy munitions.

    What if you simply tuned a cheap FM receiver to just static and fed
    that into a soundcard. Then reading from /dev/dsp or something would
    return pretty good random data, right ?

    Mike. 

    -- 
Denial. It's not just a river in Egypt.

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