New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Could true randomness come from sparkles from light reflecting the sea?

Ask HN: Could true randomness come from sparkles from light reflecting the sea?
4 by danielovichdk | 4 comments on Hacker News.
I am not well rounded in cryptography, but I had this thought about having a camera take pictures of the sea, and somehow turn the sparkles from the light hitting the sea into a useful indicator for some kind of randomness. So the camera takes a shot. Software looks at the image, collects the "sparkles", somehow counts and sums them up, perhaps multiples them with a second random counter and then we have a true random number. Does it make sense ?

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