Sources of randomness

[Perry E. Metzger]

Carl Ellison writes:
> Almost all computers have a mouse and a normal signature, hand-written with
> a mouse, has great gobs of noise.  (I'm still working on the little PC
> program to measure this -- but preliminary results show a minimum of 1 bit
> of noise per mouse sample -- or 200 bits per signature.  Final results may
> get higher entropy rates, but I'll wait for the real results before
> claiming that.)

I have a brochure from a company that sells RS232 interfaced radiation
monitors for only a couple hundred bucks. The things even come with a
RNG demo program.

(The company is "Aware Electronics")

Perry