[Cryptography] A software for combining text files to obtain high quality pseudo-random sequences in practice

[Sandy Harris]

John Denker via cryptography <cryptography at metzdowd.com> wrote:

> On 07/10/2017 04:00 PM, Sandy Harris wrote:
>
>> I do not think it is viable, because it is not random;
>
> Agreed.  Why are we even talking about this?

The RFC that is more-or-less the standard reference
on RNGs has a section on this:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4086#section-6.1.2

That is a subsection of "6.1.  Some Bad Ideas"