[117576] in Cypherpunks
Re: otp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Mon Sep 6 13:40:11 1999
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Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 10:24:47 -0700
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From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
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At 9:16 AM -0700 1999-09-06, Anonymous wrote:
>At 07:21 AM 9/6/99 -0400, John A. Limpert wrote:
>>I put together a true random number generator from a Geiger counter and
>>an old PC. It works well but it is a bit slow in generating random
>>numbers. It's good enough for keys and OTPs for low volume traffic.
>
>Take a $5 smoke detector. Ambient decay = 15/minute.
>Smoke detector flush to window on geiger tube: 20,000 decays/minute.
The dead time of the Geiger tube will stop this from working. Geiger
counters are a poor choice for any such uses.
Lots of better choices. Covered in past messages over the years.
This is not to imply support for OTPs or other such schemes.
--Tim May
Don't tread on me.
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