On 2005-11-02, Levi Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm working on a random number generator using the internet as a > way to gather entropy, I have two questions. > > 1. is there a way to capture the internet stream?
What OS? What, exactly, do you want to capture? > 2. how would I skip every 2nd, 3rd, or 4th byte to protect privacy? 2nd, 3rd, 4th, byte of what? Doesn't your OS have an entropy-gathering RN generator built-in? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Yow! I forgot my at PAIL!! visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list