On Tuesday 27 June 2006 16:06, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> > At least on the boards I checked this, the sensors give very inaccurate
> > data - e.g. temperature accurate to 0.5degC. You can't really use that
> > for random data. I guess Intel's RNG has many more digits.
>
> How about placing a cheap microphone (with very bad shielding) inside
> the case (preferably, right next to the CPU's fan) and sample it, taking
> the LSB from each sample?
>
>        Shachar

As someone already suggested, you can check out the following project that 
picks up entropy from audio devices (it doesn't seem to poll the microphone):

http://www.vanheusden.com/aed/

Ami


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