From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 09:47:04 -0800 (PST)
To: Paul Pomes <ppomes@Qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: market for hardware RNG?
Message-ID: <199611291746.JAA22571@mail.pacifier.com>
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At 06:08 AM 11/26/96 -0800, Paul Pomes wrote:
>There are some commercial products worth studying.  See
><http://rainbow.rmi.net/~comscire/> for one.

Thanks for the reference.  However, I was very unimpressed with their price 
of $295 dollars.  I don't doubt that there are certain organizations 
(banks?) which would have no problem affording them, but that's well out of 
the range of ordinary consumer items.    I just bought a 10x CDROM drive for 
$100; somehow I think that a hardware RNG should cost less than that.  
Volume is a big issue, I suppose.


Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com