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Re: Intel announcements at RSA '99
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Wed Jan 27 11:16:10 1999
Date: 27 Jan 1999 16:07:27 -0000
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <v03130304b2d3ea6bd25b@[24.128.119.92]>
Arnold G. Reinhold writes:
> I do not agree, however, that 1 bit per second would be fast enough.
Why not? Randomness never goes stale. If it did, they wouldn't print
books full of random numbers. Store the 1bps in a FIFO. Save that
entropy! There's a limited amount of it in the universe, you know. :)
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