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.
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