On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:04 AM, KPJ <[1]kpj@sics.se> wrote: A sound card in your box then can deliver random numbers. You may wish to look into this: [2]http://www.guyrutenberg.com/2010/05/14/audio-based-true-random-nu mber-generator-poc/ This may also interest you; [3]http://www.volkerschatz.com/science/audiorng.html For Debian-based Linux distros, e.g. Ubuntu, this is automated by the "randomsound" package: [4]http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/randomsound sudo apt-get install randomsound There's also audio-entropyd, but I haven't used that: [5]http://www.vanheusden.com/aed/ He has links to other entropy generators. References 1. mailto:kpj@sics.se 2. http://www.guyrutenberg.com/2010/05/14/audio-based-true-random-number-generator-poc/ 3. http://www.volkerschatz.com/science/audiorng.html 4. http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/randomsound 5. http://www.vanheusden.com/aed/