On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 11:49:19AM -0400, Travis Biehn wrote: > Morelike 1 bit. Amirite? [The song you selected.] > > Personally, I like to pipe /dev/urandom to my speakers for sourcing > keypress-timing based passwords. >
Me too. It is well known [0] this is very relaxing. Rarely, just to refresh my memory, I XOR /dev/urandom with a Windows NT CD played _backwards_ ;) [1] [0] to those who know it [1] according to ancient jokes, this MUST NOT be used for RandomMess entropy because of enormous bias to certain number > -Travis > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Peter Gutmann <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Michael Nelson <[email protected]> writes: > > > > >Five minutes of Swedish death metal should get you around 256 bits. > > > > Wrong entropy source, if you go for Norwegian black metal you get at least > > 1024 bits of entropy [0]. Having said that, Putin's foreign policy > > speeches > > will get you at least 512 bits of entropy in the same time frame. > > > > Peter. > > > > [0] From an estimate done at Tons of Rock in Norway in June of this year. > > > > > > > -- > Twitter <https://twitter.com/tbiehn> | LinkedIn > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/travisbiehn> | GitHub <http://github.com/tbiehn> > | TravisBiehn.com <http://www.travisbiehn.com> | Google Plus > <https://plus.google.com/+TravisBiehn>
