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Re: Blum-Blum-Shub source?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Urban Nilsson)
Wed May 4 19:40:09 1994

From: Urban Nilsson <d7urban@dtek.chalmers.se>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 01:33:56 +0200 (MET DST)

Timothy C. May said something along the lines of:
> 
> Of course, only Americans are allowed to use these random number
> generators, and even they face fines of $500,000 and imprisonment for
> up to 5 years for inappopriate use of random numbers.

What inappropriate use is that? Inhaling? And what could possibly
happen to me as a non-American? If some guys in black suits comes
looking for me, I would be very surprised. Perhaps not for long,
but never the less surprised...

Urban Nilsson                     | Use 'finger' for PGP2.3a public key.
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Gothenburg, Sweden                |that makes him angry.




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