Soundcard shenanigans

[Gary Richardson]

I've written a wrapper for a C++ sound card driver for Windows. Would that
be of interest?

Gary Richardson


Bryan <bryan at eevolved.com> wrote in message
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> Hello again,
>
> I'm still searching for exotic ways of collecting entropy for
cryptographic
> purposes. One idea consists of sampling the sound card. Does a python
> module exist that would allow me to sample bytes directly from the
> soundcard? The winssound module does not appear to permit me to do this,
> and it's limited to win32. On my linux i686, I tried "cat /dev/audio" but
> that didn't work either, despite the fact that the soundcard was playing
at
> the time :( Help and tips would be appreciated!
> --
> Bryan Mongeau
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> 0x50C5F276 at pgp.mit.edu
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> then at least have a chance to upset their designs, something that no
other
> species has ever aspired to do." -- Richard Dawkins
>