From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:14:00 +0800
To: Asgaard <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: [noise] Re: They're running scared.
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960409202520.0093ba00@mail.teleport.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


At 06:59 PM 4/9/96 +0200, Asgaard wrote:
>On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Michael C. Peponis wrote:
>
>> Personally, I love national insecurity such as terrorist attacks and 
>> random bombings, wish there were more of them by more people.
>
>A big problem with random bombings is that one self can become part
>of the random targets.

The question is if they are truly random bombings and how do we determine if
they are.  And if they are truly random, how can they be adapted as a source
for a good cryptosystem?  ("We are sorry for the delays in the transmision.
We had to let a few more bombs go off.")

How many bits of entropy do you get from an explosion anyways?  (Depends on
how close you are to the blast...) ];>


---
|   Remember: Life is not always champagne. Sometimes it is REAL pain.   |
|"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer:         |
| mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!"  | Ignore the man      |
|`finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key  | behind the keyboard.|
|         http://www.teleport.com/~alano/          | alano@teleport.com  |