Ok, so if yer hip to cryptography at least some, then you know that to do truly strong crypto, one needs a source of very random numbers. This is not all that easy, it turns out. If you’re unaware of this little subtle-but-way-important detail, check out Ross Anderson‘s book Security Engineering and Bruce Schneier‘s Applied Cryptography.
Anyway, so these creative geeks are apparently going for outer-space-based events as sources of noise from which to generate their randomness. The article from zdnet UK (originally) is here..
Note that the article has pointers to various other orgs providing ostensibly random numbers over the Internet.
A nod of acknowledgment to Dan Geer, who’s post to the Cryptography@ list was the source for this post.