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1995-10-01 - Re: Simple Hardware RNG Idea

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From: “W. Kinney” <kinney@bogart.Colorado.EDU>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Message ID: <199510011938.NAA04391@bogart.Colorado.EDU>
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UTC Datetime: 1995-10-01 19:39:05 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 1 Oct 95 12:39:05 PDT

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From: "W. Kinney" <kinney@bogart.Colorado.EDU>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 95 12:39:05 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Simple Hardware RNG Idea
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I write:

> put it on a scintillating counter and got alpha hits at roughly 
> half-microsecond intervals.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Um, sorry about that. That's half _millisecond_ intervals. What's three 
orders of magnitude between friends?

As long as I'm correcting myself, I just sent another message with subject
"Quantum Crypto..." which should have been "Quantum Computing..."

Sigh. Sundays.

                                 -- Will

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