[Cryptography] Generate Random Data From Sound Card

[Byrl Raze Buckbriar]

On Fri, 6 Mar 2026 20:38:41 -0800
Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> I like Ted's code, but if you want to Xor in additional (uncorrelated!) 
> data, go ahead. It can't hurt. Linux /dev/urandom is great but the idea 
> that RNG is solved, so simplify, and don't look for additional entropy 
> always worries me.

Correct me if I am wrong. I believe /dev/random character device accepts piped input and adds it to the entropy pool but not the entropy count.

If that is the case, then simply harvesting and piping in any source of even slightly random entropy would be helpful, yes?