On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:51:30 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I have no idea what distribution data from the Internet would >> have, I would imagine it is *extremely* non-uniform and *very* >> biased towards certain values (lots of "<" and ">" I bet, and >> relatively few "\x03"). > > 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. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
