[79413] in Cypherpunks
Re: Random numbers from the '60's...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lucifer Anonymous Remailer)
Fri May 2 03:19:54 1997
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 01:45:58 -0400
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: lucifer@dhp.com (lucifer Anonymous Remailer)
Reply-To: lucifer@dhp.com (lucifer Anonymous Remailer)
Bill Stewart wrote:
> >Who needs a camera and a lava lamp when soundblaster cards with noisy
> >microphone preamps are nearly universal?
>
> The Lava Lamp is nice and visual, though.
> On the other hand, isn't the noise from blowing on a microphone chaotic,
> due to various turbulence effects? It's definitely prior art,
> as is hashing the physical-world input data.
Just give me a microphone and a can of beans, and call me
"Mr. Random" (inventor of the 'corned beef' hash system).
FartMonger
