Truly random numbers

[Luka Milkovic]

Hi!
I am making a one time pad encryption program, and I have a little
problem. I somehow managed to make a small client which connects to
Forumilabs Hotbits random number generator, and I can download the
numbers. But the problem I am facing is that the connection is not
secured, it is actually plain-text protocol, and anyone can sniffit. Does
anyone have an idea how to solve this problem?
The second problem is much more important than the first... I don't know
how to obtain random numbers from /dev/random and since it is going to be
linux only application, I really need this as the source of my
entropy/random numbers. I was thinking that maybe I need to get data from
it, convert it into binary and then do it what ever I want. Anyway, what
I need is a list of n groups of XXXX ( four digits ) numbers, and I
solved it through the list, but can I ( I know I can, but I don't know
how ) somehow generate this list from /dev/random?

I appreciate any help...
Luka.