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Re: best way to create entropy?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Thu Oct 18 11:52:18 2012
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:51:03 -0700
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
To: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
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On 16/10/12 8:06 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
> On 10/16/12, JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>> You might want to take a look at:
>> http://www.lavarnd.org/news/lavadiff.html
> It's interesting... though Lava lamps require heat to work, so not
> necessarily energy efficient. In theory, you shouldn't really need
> the lava lamp part. Just the digital camera part..
You didn't read the whole page. On the right side:
our LavaRnd^tm
Spelled *LavaRnd*, mixed case with 2 a's
Reference implementation uses lens-capped digital cameras to produce
random numbers.
Directly produces cryptographically sound
<http://www.lavarnd.org/faq/crypto_sound.html> random numbers. A single
camera image frame can typically produce between 340 and 1420 bytes
bytes of random numbers.
jc
