reading internet data to generate random numbers.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-11-03, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:

>>>I've never heard of anybody using the data as source of
>>>entropy.  
>> 
>> Me neither, but the original poster did ask how to read every
>> nth byte of "the Internet stream", so I assumed he had
>> something like that in mind.
>
> And to think that if you'd just waited for the OP to explain
> what the heck he meant by "the Internet stream", you'd have
> saved ever so much time.  ;-)
>
> (But then, if we always did that Usenet wouldn't be any fun.)

That's for sure.  The real questions are rarely as interesting
and the imagined ones.

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