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Re: Dallas Semiconductor turns on Internet commerce at the touch of a button

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Stephenson)
Tue Oct 8 10:47:34 1996

Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 07:29:11 -0700
From: Kevin Stephenson <cts@deltanet.com>
Reply-To: cts@deltanet.com
To: cypherpunks@toad.com

Anonymous wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Robert Hettinga wrote:
> 
> >     iButton users will have universal access to their World Wide Web
>                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > e-mail at public Internet connections (hotels, airports, kiosks) and
>   ^^^^^^
> 
> I think that says it all.

Take a look at their random number generator. I can't see how it
provides enough entropy, therefore, a secure connection.

Kevin Stephenson

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