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cryptography (noun). The discipline concerned with communication security (eg, confidentiality of messages, integrity of messages, sender authentication, non-repudiation of messages, and many other related issues), regardless of the used medium such as pencil and paper or computers.

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MEGARAND Extreme Overkill Random Seed Generator (soc.octade.net)

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MEGARAND Extreme Overkill Random Seed Generator

https://codeberg.org/OCTADE/megarand

MEGARAND employs extreme overkill in the genration of a very large entropy pool. The output is extremely random as a result of several hashing, timestamping, shuffling, encrypting, and truncation techniques. MEGARAND is useful for generating large seed bases for key and passphrase material or for feeding to cryptographically secure PRNG software if high-speed outputs are required.

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[–] solrize 1 points 18 hours ago

This sounds kind of bogus and there has already been some work on this topic. See for example the entropy distillation phase of Fortuna:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna_(PRNG)