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jesse_b
2:34 PM
@JeffSchaller I read about a new project that just uses the camera noise from a webcam and doesn't even need lavalamps to look at
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Sotto Voce
4:03 PM
@jesse_b "The webcam is pointed at you, but don't worry - we're only using the
noise
from it, not the
image
" -- NSA
jesse_b
@SottoVoce It actually relies on the webcam being covered and then the contrast increased to create the noise
Sotto Voce
4:31 PM
@jesse_b That's what the NSA tells us, at least. ;) (I'm kidding around)
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forest
9:04 PM
Those are interesting, but all you need is a few hundred keystrokes to generate a random seed. And if you have a big company or an embedded system, you can usually have an HWRNG in it to create that seed.
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