[118273] in Cypherpunks
random paranoia
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Thu Sep 23 12:02:48 1999
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 17:37:52 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199909231537.RAA07937@mail.replay.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
At 06:01 AM 9/20/99 +0200, Anonymous wrote:
>Good point. It's pretty ironic that cypherpunks descend into fits of
paranoia at the thought of using a hardware RNG,
1. Randomness is too important to be left to chance.
> but they're willing to blindly trust all kinds of network connected
services.
2. Since when? We trust no one; in some cases not even
ourselves over time. (E.g., even authors can't remove
Eternity documents).
Put random worship and paranoia together, you'll understand.
