New entropy source proposal.
Ivan Voras
ivoras at fer.hr
Tue Mar 8 00:08:50 GMT 2005
Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Should the RNG be looking at the sound card's output, or at the sound
> card's microphone input? I think Pawel was talking about the latter,
I tried to make a point that (though I forgot to mention mic/line input)
it's the same - from my experience input also depends on the things I
said...
> Try using digital sound output via coax or TOSLINK (fibre & red laser);
> the inside of a computer is a horribly noisy place to do D/A conversion,
> and nowadays most home receivers can accept SPDIF input and give you a
> better sound.
You won't find those in low-end beige-boxen I was talking about :)
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