[8062] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Lots of random numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Crowley)
Thu Nov 16 17:45:37 2000
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Paul Crowley <paul@cluefactory.org.uk>
Date: 16 Nov 2000 22:32:13 +0000
In-Reply-To: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de's message of "Thu, 16 Nov 2000 22:34:21 +0100 (CET)"
Message-ID: <878zqj1rbm.fsf@hedonism.subnet.hedonism.cluefactory.org.uk>
Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de writes:
> Why don't you stick a sound card (the noisier, the better) into each
> node, and dump /dev/dsp (LSB) input at max amplification into the
> randomness pool?
There's no reason to put only the LSBs in the randomness pool, if the
pool is properly designed. Put all the data in.
Has any research gone into estimating the entropy from such a source?
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