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Python Random Number Generator for OTP
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- Subject: Python Random Number Generator for OTP
- From: [email protected] (Sandy Harris)
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:22:00 -0400
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If you want to use a sound card as an entropy source,
look at turbid, a solid design with well-documented
analysis of its randomness:
http://www.av8n.com/turbid/paper/turbid.htm
For a timing-based source, look at haveged
which is in Debian:
http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/
but consider this critique:
http://jakob.engbloms.se/archives/1374
For a cheap simple RNG that needs more
analysis before it is seriously trusted, see
my timing-based demon:
ftp://ftp.cs.sjtu.edu.cn:990/sandy/maxwell/
Documentation there discusses several
alternatives,