[ale] OT: Quantifying Randomness

[Jeff Hubbs]

Kevin -

I remember reading something on some Web site about someone using a
video camera pointed at some lava lamps to generate entropy.  The scheme
even used X10 to give the lamps some periodic off time to improve their
longevity.  Try Googling for that and see if you can find it.

- Jeff

On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 16:28, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to ensure that random data captured from
> recordings of white noise does not contain patterns induced by the
> equipment.  I've seen programs that analyze the output of a PRNG and
> quantify its randomness, but I don't know what they're called and I
> can't find anything on Google.  If someone can point me to a white paper
> or an algorithm, I can implement it...
> 
> Thanks,
> Krum
> 
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