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submitted 5 months ago by octade@soc.octade.net to c/crypto@infosec.pub

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

#Random #Entropy #Cryptography #Crypto #Hardware #Hacks #Sound #Audio #Chaos

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[-] deknos@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago

is this actually trustable? did someone test? can we generate a database for testing?

this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2026
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