[Cryptography] Generate Random Data From Sound Card

Bill Stewart billstewart at pobox.com
Tue Mar 10 01:14:03 EDT 2026


On 3/6/26 08:16, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
> I do have a set of 16-sided dice, but I haven't used them for serious 
> purposes.  
Roll the dice, take a picture of them, hash the picture :-)
Gets you the dice roll numbers, randomness from the position,
and lets you use d20s instead of fancy d16s, or a larger pile of d6.

 > If I really needed to generate 1024 bits, I would be lazy and > use 
this (with the hexdump only for readability)
> 
> head -c 128 /dev/urandom | hexdump
> 
> In other words, I would just rely entirely on Theodore Tso's code.  Go Ted


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