On 2005-11-03, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've never heard of anybody using the data as source of
>> entropy. All the entropy gathering I've read about used the
>> timing of network events, not the user-data associated with
>> those events.
>
> Me neither, but the original poster did ask how to read every nth byte
> of "the Internet stream", so I assumed he had something like that in mind.
I agree that would be a pretty bad idea unless you went to some
effort to reduce the bias in the distribution of the value of
data bytes.
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