From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 07:38:17 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: RE: Modulating the FM noise spectrum considered infeasible
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At 9:52 am -0500 12/3/96, James A. Tunnicliffe wrote:
> At 2:55 am -0500 12/3/96, Timothy C. May wrote:
>> [...]Having said this, Johnson noise makes a superior noise source,
                          ^^^^^^^
>> if a physical source is desired.
<snip>
>Yours makes NOISE?  Impressive...
>
>In this case, I guess entropy is preferable to atrophy, though.  :-)

Indeed.

I've found that my Johnson only makes noise with the proper, er,
peripheral, though...

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
(whose .sig seems quite appropriate to cypherpunks today...)


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