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Re:NeuG USB True Random Number Generator by Cyberdog on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:05PM (#16080296)
Keyboard typing, mouse/camera movements, timings, sure.

But arbitrarily reading data from my camera or microphone, even for the well-intentioned purpose of generating entropy… no thank you.

Re:NeuG USB True Random Number Generator by brndnmtthws on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:08PM (#16080318)
Cameras are actually a fantastic source of entropy because the CMOS sensors produce high quality and very random data in the form of noise. You can crank up the sensitivity (ISO) and get even more.
Re:NeuG USB True Random Number Generator by cleeus on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:31PM (#16080503)
Increasing the ISO is just a multiplication of the raw sensor value - it doesn't lead to more noise - it just makes it visible to the human eye. Also on my DSLR I can see all kinds of stripes and cross patterns in the noise, so a lot of it is not really random but based on static sensor properties.
Re:NeuG USB True Random Number Generator by brndnmtthws on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:39PM (#16080563)
Fair enough, it is indeed just an amplifier, but what I was trying to say is that the noise becomes quite visually apparent when you increase the ISO.
Re:NeuG USB True Random Number Generator by iotscale on Friday January 05, 2018 @03:55PM (#16081548)
you can cancel out static noise with multiple readings