[109482] in Cypherpunks
Re: About Alpha radiation...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gw-terisa)
Thu Mar 25 14:40:29 1999
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:12:43 -0800
To: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>,
"Cypherpunks" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
From: gw-terisa <gw@terisa.com>
Reply-To: gw-terisa <gw@terisa.com>
obviously what was meant was gamma radiation, eh?
At 04:38 PM 3/24/99 -0500, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:
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>On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:13:34 PST, Nobuki Nakatuji wrote:
>
>>He said that an alpha particle from space
>> can knock out a transistor in the chip and modify the cipher. Then
>> again it is a trivial matter to have not one but many CPUs
>
>Alpha ?!? Duhhhhhh!
>
>Alphas are helium nucleus. Two protons and two neutrons.
>They have a very shallow penetration and are usually stopped by a sheet of
>paper.
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