From: "Lee Davis"<lee.davis@thomasmore.edu>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 03:32:35 +0800
To: <cypherpunks@Algebra.COM>
Subject: Streams, Voice, and Sensitive Dependence
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It is my understanding that the PGP algorithm is primarily intended as a block
cypher.  Therefore, wouldn't an Outer Block stream cypher be more effective for
phone conversations?  Both solutions require hardware for a practical (tolerably
noiseless) implementation, so there's nothing to be gained by streaming data
into a block format.

In any case, there has been a lot of recent work in dynamic systems (Chaos),
especially in the fast computations of Julia Sets.  Has anyone seen a paper on
exploiting the sensitive dependance in these systems for pseudorandom number
generation?