My responses regarding random generator.
Perry E. Metzger
pmetzger at shearson.com
Thu Nov 12 08:38:19 PST 1992
>From: crunch at netcom.com (John Draper)
> Then, there is the speed of generating these random numbers,
>and how we will want to deal with the possibility of inadequate
>speed. I suspect that serial transmission at 9500 baud might
>be easily obtained, but going much faster withoug "drift" might
>be problematic as Tim May pointed out.
I'd like to point out that higher data rates are very very desirable.
One would like to be able to cut a pair of CD's for use as one time
pads in a reasonable amount of time -- at 9600 baud its going to take
a LONG time to do. You can always run multiple units in parallel, but
its probably good to get the cost/bitrate ratio as low as possible.
Perry
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