building a true RNG

[Paul Crowley]

"John S. Denker" <jsd at monmouth.com> writes:

> > Is there any point in compressing the video before running it through a
> > cryptohash? 
> 
> There might be a minor point, namely computational efficiency.

I can't believe any compression software could be as fast as just
feeding the signal straight into SHA-1.
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