A thought just occurred to me... How useful would it be to use a video stream as a source of random input to something like /dev/random? I'm thinking along the lines of a Connectix QuickCam (sp?) or the cool videocam that comes with the Indy. It seems to me that the picture recieved by a camera sitting atop a monitor would be quite unpredictable. (relatively) High bandwith, too. Even if the entropy in a video signal is low, the high bandwidth would seem to make up for it. Struggling to keep my head above the crypto tide, andy -- Andrew Isaacson <adisaacs@mtu.edu> finger adisaacs@colossus.csl.mtu.edu Freshman/Comp Sci @ Michigan Technological University for PGP public key ========================================================================== "Hi, I'm, I'm, I'm... you'll have to forgive me, I'm terrible with names."