On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Andy Isaacson <[1]adi@hexapodia.org>
   wrote:

   On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 04:50:55PM -0400, Tom wrote:
   > Does anyone on the list have some Python source code for an
   > OTP-focused random number generator they'd be willing to share? I'm
   > interested in seeing how different people would approach it?

     Why not simply use /dev/urandom (after ensuring you have enough
     entropy,
     etc, etc). If you don't have systemic entropy collection, Python is
     not
     going to be able to help.
     Of course any entropy pool measurement is merely computationally
     feasible randomness; you'll need to measure a physically
     nondeterministic process directly if you want true information
     theoretic
     entropy. Something like an entropykey should do the trick, if you
     trust
     their design and that they haven't included backdoors.

   Andy, maybe you or someone else has some insight into something I've
   wondered about:
   Is there a secure way to timeshare a single entropy source such as an
   entropy key? High-quality entropy sources are often fragile, expensive,
   or difficult to manufacture and maintain. If Alice has a friggin'
   amazing entropy source, and Bob wants to use it from afar, what would
   be the best way for Alice to let Bob retrieve data from the entropy
   source when she wasn't using it?
   -Yan

     -andy

   --
   Yan Zhu
   [2]http://web.mit.edu/zyan/www/

References

   1. mailto:adi@hexapodia.org
   2. http://web.mit.edu/zyan/www/