On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 11:49:19AM -0400, Travis Biehn wrote:

Morelike 1 bit. Amirite? [The song you selected.]

Personally, I like to pipe /dev/urandom to my speakers for sourcing keypress-timing based passwords.

Me too. It is well known [0] this is very relaxing. Rarely, just to refresh my memory, I XOR /dev/urandom with a Windows NT CD played _backwards_ ;) [1] [0] to those who know it [1] according to ancient jokes, this MUST NOT be used for RandomMess entropy because of enormous bias to certain number

-Travis

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

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Michael Nelson <nelson_mikel@yahoo.com> writes:

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Five minutes of Swedish death metal should get you around 256 bits.

Wrong entropy source, if you go for Norwegian black metal you get at least 1024 bits of entropy [0]. Having said that, Putin's foreign policy speeches will get you at least 512 bits of entropy in the same time frame.

Peter.

[0] From an estimate done at Tons of Rock in Norway in June of this year.

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