>===== Original Message From mr sam jooky <mrsamjooky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ===== Easy forms of added randomness are radio static fed to your sound card. There is also a program from David Wagner at UCB that uses the discrepencies between the left and right channels of sound card while filtering out the background noise (I thought it could be beneficial oh well I guess most of it comes from chips with regular noise patterns). Typing into the keyboard to add entropy to /dev/random is quite good but not the same as very chaotic events. Its a question of shortcuts vs the chase is better than the catch. Obviously junk in junk out, so if your not able or willing to put the time into building the foundation of your encrypted stream.. Depending on what data you are sending for example: top of every page has your known name and address as a header. This weakness could lower the amount of combinations to brute force by another factor... Time to go out and get applied cryptography and start reading I guess ------------------------------------------- The Fastest Browser on Earth now for FREE!! Download Opera 5 for Windows now! Get it at http://www.opera.com/download/ ------------------------------------------- Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/