[onerng talk] Another source of seed data ...

[Peter Gutmann]

Jim Cheetham <jim at gonzul.net> writes:

>http://www.theregister​.co​.uk​/2016​/02​/24​/randomness​_is​_a​_lottery​_so​_why​_not​_use​_a​_lottery​_for​_randomness​/

This is for a publicly-verifiable source of randomness rather than a secure 
PRNG, and it's mostly a clever-gimmick idea (as are many others of this 
form).  An easier-to-work-with one would be to use a fixed historical 
document (your favourite bit of Shakespeare, the Gettysburg address, 
something ascribed to Confucius, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
cthulhu fhtagn, whatever) to seed a PRNG.

Peter.