• a neat hack for the properly paranoid -Your computer is likely generating random noise on your sound card. On some systems you can harvest this noise as true random entropy. This entropy can be diffused and whitened for use in cryptography.https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2026-March/039388.html#Random #Entropy #Cryptography #Crypto #Hardware #Hacks #Sound #Audio #Chaos@cypherpunk@soc.octade.net @cryptography@soc.octade.net @crypto@infosec.pub @cryptography@fed.dyne.org @cryptography@lemmy.ml
Source code screenshot for harvesting entropy from a sound card. Follow the link to read the source code text.

1 comment

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 1 point 4 months ago

is this actually trustable? did someone test? can we generate a database for testing?

  • source