Quote from: jonald_fyookball on April 08, 2014, 03:42:23 AM

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Quote from: jonald_fyookball on April 08, 2014, 03:16:50 AM

Sure... All I was saying is that making a PROVABLY unflawed rng isn't going to substantially help customer acquisition for reasons I won't bore you with...

What does acquiring customers have to do with this thread?

Thought you were developing it for some business purpose initially.

Btw, why do we need hardware , isn't there enough entropy on the internet that we can access?

It's public entropy, so if anyone knows what you are using, they can generate the same "random" numbers. A true RNG would mean no one could reproduce the results.

It could be combined with the entropy of the exact time a random number request was made, along with additional pseudo random number from the server, hash the result, grab some random parameters from that, go get some random feed from online that is also changing in real time, hash that, and you have a pretty doggone random number that no one could arrive at even if they had your source code.

I disagree. If someone had your source code, they could track all those sources you talk about, and the only thing they'd need to speculate on is the exact time a random number request was made. If you're going to claim that is random enough, then just use the exact time request by itself - everything else adds no additional randomness to someone who has your source code.