It's because crypto must not rely on pseudo random generated numbers, they
are considered too easy to crack.
I guess that sound input was seen as a universal way to get some hardware
noise...
Nowadays, shouldn't it be something like /dev/random?


2013/11/19 Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>

> Does anyone know the current state of play of the crypto team?
>
> We have a DSA implementation in "System-Digital Signatures" that
> should belong in a package called "Crypto-Something", but if the other
> stuff was better I'd rather delete this and use the proper stuff.
>
> Also, we need a better encapsulated source of randomness than
> "SoundService default randomBitsFromSoundInput: 512" because crypto
> shouldn't depend on a sound package. I don't care if something _plugs
> that in_, but the direct reference is suboptimal.
>
> frank
>
>
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