-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:37:10PM -0000, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote: > > 1) Get 8 bytes from /dev/urandom. (Just for sure.) Put them into the > You probably know this if you use it, but /dev/random is the most > "random" one, as it always uses system entropy, rather than falling > back on an algorithm to generate more bits than are available in > the pool.
He only needs a pseudo-random seed, though. The real random comes from the radio white-noise. I'd say it'd be better to not waste the system's random bytes on this at all, but just to gen your own pseudo-random bytes using /dev/urandom's out-of-entropy function from your OS of choice (audit, I guess, but it's mostly just to blank the memory of anything useful). After that, you actually want to feed the entropy you're getting from the radio tuner *into* /dev/[u]random. - -- gabriel rosenkoetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (NetBSD) iD8DBQE+XONt9ehacAz5CRoRAl9yAJ40RRX2GqexHdYa76owwab8sjd+bQCfRn6s pv5PaYjQB4fkCE8QefC+u8g= =3OKq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
