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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:27
Adam Shostack (adam@homeport.org)
Mon, 8 Feb 1999 23:17:31 -0500
On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 08:43:36PM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:
| > If you want to sell to individuals, the $50 price point is
| > high for an RNG box. I'll agree that perhaps it is worthwhile, but
| > only if all my apps (Netscape, PGP, ssh, IPSec) can take advantage of
| > it. I'd be unlikely to buy one because at that price, you won't get
| > it to fit in a pccard slot so I can forget its attached to my laptop.
| > You arely likely to pass many people's utility test.
|
| Actually, my hardware guy tells me it would be _cheaper_ to make it a PC
| card than an external box. I almost believe him. I think we may be able
| to offer either.
By PC card, do you mean an ISA card, or a PCMCIA card?
| > So if you want to sell a pile of these, get a designer, and
| > make it cool. I'd pay 75 or $100 for a des cracker chip in a box,
| > because that would be cool. I can explain that to the non-techie
| > people in my office. Think iMac. Think Connection Machine. Think
| > blinky lights and translucent plastics.
|
| :-) My worry was that if I add des cracker chips it makes the hardware
| harder to verify. I reckoned that was important. I'm a purist.
Nah. Just use the random failures of the DES chips as your
number source. :)
Adam
-- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:27