On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Peter Brooks <peter.h.m.bro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually, thinking about > it, there is probably a source of non-algorithmically-derived 'random' > numbers somewhere on the net that would do the job nicely.
True entropy is usually provided by a source such as /dev/random (on Unix systems). It's sometimes referred to as "cryptographic" randomness, due to its necessity in secure encryption work. There are various ways to get this in a cross-platform way. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
