New entropy source proposal.

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Mar 7 13:07:13 GMT 2005


In message <20050307130330.GX9291 at darkness.comp.waw.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wr
ites:

>I've been playing a bit with "use sound card as an entropy source" idea.
>This simple program does what I wanted:

Can you give a quick summary:

	What sample setting do you use ?

	What gain setting do you use ?

	Have you run experiements where you have attached various
	signal sources to the input ?  Music ?  Pure sine tone ?



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