reading internet data to generate random numbers.

Neil Schemenauer nas at arctrix.com
Wed Nov 2 18:11:17 EST 2005


Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> Doesn't your OS have an entropy-gathering RN generator built-in?

Alternatively, if you want lots of high-quality random numbers, buy
a cheap web camera: http://www.lavarnd.org/ .  Using data from the
Internet is just a bad idea.

    Neil



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