On 21 May 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> 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 ?
A much better idea would be take a (preferably cheap) resister and amplify
the termal noise from it. This used to be standard equipment on old
machines (for Monte Carlo methods).
Vladimir Dergachev
>
> Mike.
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