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Re: Random numbers from the '60's...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colin Plumb)
Tue May 6 01:02:55 1997
Date: Mon, 5 May 97 22:53:57 MDT
From: colin@nyx.net (Colin Plumb)
To: karn@qualcomm.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
> By the way, the Linux /dev/random driver already accepts external
> seeding information. So seeding it from the microphone can be as easy
> as
> $ cat /dev/audio > /dev/random
> (wait a few seconds, then hit ^C)
Or even "head -c64k /dev/audio > /dev/random". The /dev/random generator
is derived from the generator in PGPfone, which was designed for just such
seed material.
--
-Colin
