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Subject: Re: Random Data
From: Marcel Popescu (marcelaiurea.com)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2000 - 09:26:21 CDT

From: <ANTGamezaol.com>

> Just a question, but how reliable would useing something like setihome,
or a
> home version of a space sound scope to generate random data? assumeing
> everything is always moving, and sunspikes and such, it would appear to be
> fairly random, is this correct?

The problem is that all that data is public knowledge, so if you're using it
for something like seeding a PRNG for crypto purposes, the only question is
"what block did you use" - and there are too few blocks for that to be too
much of a problem.

Mark