Noise sources

Hi Steffen,

> i need to create some strong random numbers

This is always a considerable challenge, no?

> Possibly someone of you got any idea what sources of noise i could take.

For the time being, the most reasonable source (for me) has been interrupts that

are asynchronous/aperiodic in nature (e.g. uart, ethernet, etc). But that's just

half (or less) of the problem: how you use them can be a headache as well ;-)

Combining an async driven LFSR with a clock-based LFSR as a salt source for

a crypto algorithm (the output of which is the random data) appears good -- but

I never did the math 8-P

Please don't be shy about posting your ideas -- this is very, very challenging stuff!

Regards,

--Scott