Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 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. 

You could certainly take (say) one byte or one bit from the end of the hash. 
And breaking SHA-1 still isn't going to give you any non-random results, 
unless you find correlations within different parts of the outputs of SHA-1, 
rather than the usual search which is correlations between inputs and outputs.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
   There aren't any trees on Mars.

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