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by chrisseaton 3573 days ago
I'm not normally a paranoid person but EM radiation seems like it's something that it would be easy for someone outside your house in a van to manipulate.
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Discussions about random seed generators usually devolve into theoretical issues about why <random idea> can be manipulated.

If you're really paranoid, just do this:

$ echo "<bash face against keyboard multiple times>" >> /dev/random

It should be basically impossible for them to manipulate the low bits of the signal. Then you hash it, which makes any bias irrelevant as long as enough bits are random.