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

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Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Sun, 21 May 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > 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 ?
> >
> > An attacker with a radio transmitter...
>
> Faraday's cage + mic with a nasty loopback. The real problem being: you
> want a random data with known distribution and none of these methods will
> give that.
<snip>

Random number source by radioactive decay ;-)

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