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On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 07:59:35AM +0100, Mark R V Murray wrote:
> [...]
> > Heck, piping in mic data to /dev/random is a good way to seed the
> > rng on many machines.
> 
> Well, sure, but what if you don't have microphone? I want lots
> of choices, in anticipation of only a subset being usable.

I like the microphone idea.  Not just it adds another hard-to-mess-with
(?) entropy source, it can also be a nice "reference" example for people
wanting to write their own sources and plug them into the RNG framework.

./danfe