reading internet data to generate random numbers.
Steven D'Aprano
steve at REMOVETHIScyber.com.au
Thu Nov 3 17:31:23 EST 2005
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:40:43 -0500, Peter Hansen wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:51:30 +0000, Grant Edwards 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. ;-)
Has he done so yet? I can't see it anywhere.
--
Steven.
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