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Re:New and improved Linux Random Number Generator ready for ... by hoytech on Friday November 19, 2021 @09:47AM (#29277686)
lavarand was invented and patented by SGI in 1996: https://www.lavarand.org/news/lavadiff.html
Re:New and improved Linux Random Number Generator ready for ... by genewitch on Friday November 19, 2021 @04:06PM (#29282501)
There was a library to use webcams for entropy called lavarnd up until about 8 years ago, as well. I am unsure if the api to the os changed or there's a functional difference between ccd and cmos or whatever.

I do a lot of entropy research, and was annoyed I had to roll my own implementation for a no-photon camera entropy source.