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Re:NeuG USB True Random Number Generator by kozak on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:17PM (#16080397)
Shoot some photographs (or video frames), make sure there are no duplicates, take hash functions of them, delete the images - and voila, you have the finest true random bits of data.
Re:NeuG USB True Random Number Generator by cleeus on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:26PM (#16080479)
It's not that simple.

Some years ago I used an analog TV card tuned to an empty channel that was giving seemingly white noise and captured frames to generate entropy. I only used the least significant bit of each RGB value of each pixel.

When I supplied the bits to the diehard testsuite, it complained about a number of patterns and failing tests.

The hash function will of course save you, but it's hard to tell the amount of real randomness that's coming from the sensor.

update: Oh, I may have misunderstood. If the whole images changes in random ways and is secret, then of course this is fine.

Re:NeuG USB True Random Number Generator by XnoiVeX on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:28PM (#16080487)
That's exactly what CloudFlare does with their lava lamps. https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...
Re:NeuG USB True Random Number Generator by samat on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:27PM (#16080486)
You need some additional processing, otherwise ‘intellectual image processing’ in modern digital cameras will fuck you up big time.