system entropy pool (was Re: [PLUG] Do it yourself moderation)
Chris Jantzen
chris-plug at maybe.net
Sun Nov 30 13:04:01 UTC 2003
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:52:40PM -0800, Kyle Hayes wrote:
> Still, on a more serious note, has anyone actually looked at using something
> like Usenet to generate random data? It has to be a huge pool of entropy.
> Perhaps the alt.binaries.* lists should be avoided, but mailing lists and
> non-binary news groups should have significant entropy. I guess you'd also
> want to remove all quoted material (repetition can't be that good for the
> entropy level).
>
> You wouldn't get very many bits of entropy per message, but you'd have so
> much raw data!
I suspect linguistic character and word 'distance' would pretty
predictable from language to language. If anything you *would* want to
include binaries. Now, as a matter of *active* (i.e., beginning right
now) random data analysis, you could measure message injection rates
and latency (here or on USENET) on a per-group/list basis.
--
chris kb7rnl =->
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