2 Aug
2004
2 Aug
'04
5:08 a.m.
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Dan Veeneman wrote:
At 12:44 AM 8/2/04, you wrote:
There's a "hassle factor" in selling radioactive devices to the military,
but it's easily done these days at home. Here's what I do:
http://www.etoan.com/random-number-generation/index.html
Wow, very cool! Sure beats my idea for mounting the detector circuitry to
a badge that you can then wear on your lapel in public to annoy smokers :)
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My
favorite on the opposite end, is a random bit stream produced by
using the pulses from a geiger counter (and associated radioactive
material) to clock a long shift register. It's well-discussed, but I'm
not sure anyone ever produced one.
I *think* some military crypto gear did things link this, but I am not
sure.