[Cryptography] Generate Random Data From Sound Card

[Kent Borg]

On 3/7/26 3:43 AM, Byrl Raze Buckbriar via cryptography wrote:
> If that is the case, then simply harvesting and piping in any source of even slightly random entropy would be helpful, yes?

Yes.

What you feed in does not have to be "random" at all. It just has to be 
unknown to whomever might want to predict your RNG's output. If your 
attackers don't know what you considered feeding in, and whether you 
actually did, and when you fed it in in relation to other entropy 
inputs…it will improve your RNG's output. (Unless the RNG is swamped 
with so much input that it decides to ignore some.)

-kb, the Kent who has currency in his wallet with serial numbers of it, 
and though those serial numbers are in no way "truly random", it is 
exceedingly likely no one in the world knows what those serial numbers 
are, which makes them potentially useful to a good RNG, and certainly no 
harm.