Max Vozeler wrote: > I suppose the amount of entropy depends on which part of the > disk(s) we look at. The first X megabytes are probably very > deterministic due to the MBR and standard windows binaries. I'll > write to hmh (resident entropy expert) and ask him about this > and the other ideas floating around. Hopefully he can help us. Not if the machine has a large enough quantity of boot sector viruses. :-) Really, the best way to get entropy out of windows might just be to identify the top 10 or 20 files that windows viruses and spyware infect and cat those, along with the contents of something like the Desktop folder, and the registry. -- see shy jo
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