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[?]OCTADE » 🌐
@octade@soc.octade.net

Generate Random Data From Sound Card

- 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

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Source code screenshot for harvesting entropy from a sound card. Follow the link to read the source code text.

Alt...Source code screenshot for harvesting entropy from a sound card. Follow the link to read the source code text.

    [?]Philosophics » 🌐
    @microglyphics@mastodon.social

    Claude witters on about the Thermodynamics or ideological Maintenance—referencing democracy and capitalism.
    philosophics.blog/2026/02/08/c

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