[51488] in Cypherpunks
Re: WARES - random generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Wed Mar 6 00:58:36 1996
From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
To: alano@teleport.com (Alan Olsen)
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 00:53:59 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List), email@fringeware.com
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960305231417.009380a8@mail.teleport.com> from "Alan Olsen" at Mar 5, 96 03:14:17 pm
I'd be interested in seeing design reviews & the like. A $50 hardware
rng that did a recent job would be fabulous, but rngs are notoriously
easy to mess up. So can we get design information & such?
Adam
| >Keywords: madison hawai obsceni prising ridblood ribiliss
| >Subject: WARES - random generator
| >Reply-To: email@fringeware.com (FringeWare Inc)
| >Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 11:06:20 -0600
| >Apparently-To: fwlist-daily@fringeware.com
| >X-UIDL: 4751f2738fffe6a83cf40be20fcd79a5
| >The product line is called Perfect Crypt Products and the new item
| >being considered is a random number generator which plugs into the
| >serial port of your PC/Mac/Sparcbook/Cray/etc., and pours out a stream
| >of random numbers. The process is based on thermal radiation, the
| >randomness looks quite good, and the product would retail for about us$50.
| >
| >If you have an interest in such a product, please let us know here
| >at: email@fringeware.com and we'll add it to our catalog.
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