Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 01:08:17 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New entropy source proposal. Message-ID: <422CECF1.4090603@fer.hr> In-Reply-To: <422CDEC1.4090000@mac.com> References: <20050307130330.GX9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <200503071609.j27G9mR1032489@grovel.grondar.org> <20050307205836.GZ9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <422CCB5B.80300@fer.hr> <422CDEC1.4090000@mac.com>
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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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