someone asked:
What can be used for generating a random salt? Is System.Random
secure enough?
Achim Schneider wrote:
...or by pinging a random host and taking the time difference, checking
the current cpu temperature and fan speed, counting how many times
your process gets suspended in a certain amount of time, taking a
picture of a lava lamp and hashing it, booting windows, not doing
anything, and measure the time it takes to crash, hashing a snapshot
of the slashdot frontpage, and, last, but not least, measuring the
amount of spam per second currently swooshing into your mail account.
or http://www.random.org/ perhaps ?
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