A while ago I wrote about creating random numbers out of noise gathered from an audio device and also created a password generator based on the idea. The implementation was based on Open Sound System (commonly known as OSS). OSS was the de facto way to access audio devices a couple of years ago, until it hit licensing issues and was subsequently replaced by ALSA. As Ubuntu no longer supports OSS (and even the ALSA wrapper for it is in Universe), I’ve decided to re-write the code using some modern alternative.
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