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

From: Igmar Palsenberg (maillist@chello.nl)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 18:56:53 EDT

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    > 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 ?

    Nope... Unless the receiver recieves a resonable amount of random
    interference, the data isn't considered random enough.

    >
    > Mike.
    >

            Igmar
            
            

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