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Re: CD-reading for random keys

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JonWienke@aol.com)
Thu Mar 14 14:56:44 1996

Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:40:38 -0500
From: JonWienke@aol.com
To: cypherpunks@toad.com

In a message dated 96-03-14 08:34:57 EST, you write:

>I would
>suggest recording thermal noise (Eg the hiss from an untuned FM radio),
>perhaps XORing with a pseudo-random sequence to remove residual bias. 

XORing 2 or independent thermal noise sources together would be even better.

Jonathan Wienke

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