reading internet data to generate random numbers.

[Peter Hansen]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 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.

He hasn't, so you'd _still_ be saving time. <wink>