[Haskell-cafe] Re: Password hashing

[Don Stewart]

Andrew.Butterfield:
> 
> >someone asked:
> >>>What can be used for generating a random salt? Is System.Random
> >>>secure enough?
> >>>      
> Achim Schneider wrote:
> >...or by pinging a random host and taking the time difference, checking
> >the current cpu temperature and fan speed, counting how many times
> >your process gets suspended in a certain amount of time, taking a
> >picture of a lava lamp and hashing it, booting windows, not doing
> >anything, and measure the time it takes to crash, hashing a snapshot
> >of the slashdot frontpage, and, last, but not least, measuring the
> >amount of spam per second currently swooshing into your mail account.
> >
> >  
> 
> or http://www.random.org/ perhaps ?

Via,
    System.Random.Atmosphere

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/RandomDotOrg/0.2.1/doc/html/System-Random-Atmosphere.html