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6 Sep 2024 13:21:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: REAL random numbers :D  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 5 Jan 2009 16:13:58
Message: <49627816$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> I liked better the one that had a camera pointed at half a dozen lava 
> lamps, and took the sha-1 of the webcam's output to generate random 
> streams. :-)

Depends on how unbreakable you believe SHA-1 to be. (Assuming you wanted 
to use the random data for cryptographic purposes anyway. But then, 
collectin random data from a public source is probably a dumb idea in 
that case...)

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