From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 96 19:43:10 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Ultimate Paranoia
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At 12:10 PM 1/22/96 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
>Fellow Cypherpunks,
>
>I have been lurking around for some time and I have learned alot, But I have
>a few questions that I either haven't seen posted or I've missed all together.
>
>I keep PGP stored on a removable hard drive and keep it under lock and
>key when it's not in use.  I write and encrypt messages on a stand-alone
>computer,
>that I only have access to. My passphrase is rather long and full of gibberish,
>But I still fear the other things that I can not control.

Gives you a headache, doesn't it? <G>  Welcome to the club!
>
>Does anyone make and sell a device that emits white and pink noise?

Reverse-biased zener diodes produce bandwidth-limited white noise.  Pink 
noise is (I think) white noise filtered 3db per octave with a lowpass filter.

>
>How do you take the randomness collected from radation sensors to create
>a truly random sample for creating a PGP key?

Dunno.  I'm not a programmer.

>Is there anything else that I might be missing besides lining the walls &
>computer 
>in tin foil?   :^) 

The best defense is a good offense.  

Klaatu Burada Nikto.   (Remember this... It'll become important...soon.)
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