From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jul 22 10:16: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A7F37BA64; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:16:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA66718; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:15:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <200007221715.NAA66718@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman Cc: Kris Kennaway , arch@FreeBSD.ORG X-Image-URL: http://www.transsys.com/louie/images/louie-mail.jpg From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: Quantifying entropy References: In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:01:43 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:15:59 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tell you what, if anyone has some software which can be used to evaluate the "randomness" of a bucket of bits, I'll run some experiments. I'm convinced that even on a static, snow-free picture you will extract some useful randomness just due to the noise of the tuner and A/D converter used in the video detection process. Using a completely unoccupied channel with no signal present will be that much better. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message