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I wouldn’t consider an image to be sufficiently random, because you don’t have a uniform probability of any specific value: the walls aren’t changing colors, I don’t see any blue lava lamps, camera probably spits out an image with some compression, it has predictable changes through the day if the lighting changes, etc

So… I think it’s relying on a cryptographically secure hashing function to become random enough to rely on, correct?




The article contains details of how the images are used.


Almost definitely, but ANY image of this type (video feed) probably has enough entropy for a lot of random bits.




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