-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello, All! I was just thinking about how to generate random numbers, when I hit upon an interesting idea: If the internet is so huge and complex, why not, say, use the least significant bits of ping times from random internet hosts as seeds for a PRNG? (Practical Random Number Gen.) You could then break the resulting binary value into 128-bit blocks and modulus/xor each with a stream of random numbers taken from a keyboard timing. After all this, you could wash it with a secure symmetric cryptosystem such as idea in CBC mode. Any thoughts, comments? -olcay - -- "For he who lives more lives than one, |) Olcay Cirit -- olcay@libtech.com more deaths than one must die" (| http://www.libtech.com/olo2.html - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMTh9pCoZzwIn1bdtAQGuDAGA1QM1KyGQ2i6n9LLF00HrVn7OvBftesA9 +Jsu4W3yZothdL1pFQLt2v5l9mjgTspW =2x/g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----