[ntp:questions] Public remote RNG server service on the net

Danny Mayer mayer at ntp.isc.org
Sun Jul 6 02:56:13 UTC 2008


Ryan Malayter wrote:
> Since this thread is completely off-topic, but everyone else is
> replying, I suppose I will too:
> 
> Check out http://www.random.org
> 
> Atmospeheric noise is the entropy source, "whitened" using the SHA
> family of algorithms IIRC. This site is actually useful for things
> like picking box numbers in the office Superbowl pool, as others can
> witness (visually) that results were pulled directly from the
> random.org site.
> 

Just responding to this message should provide sufficient randomness 
since it's mostly useless comments.

Danny



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