-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 5 Nov 1995, SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N wrote:
The cheapest strong source of video noise that I can think of would be a small fan with a ribbon tied to the grille. As long as it's in a turbulent flow regime, you'll get very random numbers at a fast rate.
Oh, I don't know about cheapest. Electricity costs money. How does $.32 per day sound to you? I've come up with a successful algorithm that works like this: I generate a number based upon a random seed. To get the seed, I mail a letter in exactly the same bin at exactly noon Monday - Saturday at the US Post Office on Orange Street in New Haven, CT. The letter is always addressed to the exact same recipient. I simply record the number of days it takes for the letter to arrive. Guaranteed random. =========================================================================== Henry W. Farkas | Me? Speak for IBM? Fat chance. hfarkas@ims.advantis.com |------------------------------------------------ hfarkas@vnet.ibm.com | http://www.ims.advantis.com/~hfarkas henry@nhcc.com | http://www.nhcc.com/~henry - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP 6.2.2 Key fingerprint: AA D0 F5 44 C1 8C 11 52 B3 80 34 1C CE 38 EC 53 Public key at: pgp-public-keys@pgp.mit.edu, and other popular key servers. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- We'll just outlaw unlicensed cryptography. After all, it works in France. You don't see weekly terrorist attacks there any more do you? - futplex - =========================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Auto-signed with Bryce's Auto-PGP v1.0beta iQCVAwUBMJ+5WqDthkLkvrK9AQFsgwP/UFHv+skRuUb/2V3QgUHmXcDe/dZfBZaZ d4A78fuixruhtpCU6dJKcfpUzyWz8Y+iYGll+bFiotJuX2xrSnYji2TbesWsp0AL XjczoLdG/V2RRQrx57R8Zdq33W6QFb/7j16NdXghLizvxUi5LVk6zRAakMhwa2FM 3+ywY6mgM2I= =dBcX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----