At 06:53 PM 9/24/99 -0700, Eugene Leitl wrote:
I've recently aquired a video camera (bttv-based 3Com Bigpicture, can
do 30 fps true color 640x480). I've noticed that under certain
conditions images can become quite noisy. Does anyone has data on the
amount and quality of the entropy produced?
David Honig writes:
Even if I had the same hardware, perhaps the tolerances on my ADCs are
different from yours.
And illumination levels will affect certain kinds of noise.
Sure, but the entropy generation rate will be in any case higher than
stuff coming from /dev/dsp
The point:
See http://lavarand.sgi.com/
John
