DIY RNGs [was: Re: Curious RNG stalemate [was: use of cpunks]]

[James A. Donald]

On 2013-10-23 04:27, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> It seems that rnd_wavein uses a small window (you document 256 samples
> as the default).  One common silent-failure mode of video capture
> interfaces is to intermittently provide the same frame (around 1 MiB of
> data) twice!
>
> If your whitener doesn't chain blocks and you use the output directly as
> random data (worst case, as an OTP)

All whiteners chain.  If they do not, it is a bug.