Folks had been talking about doing some crypto things in custom hardware about the size of a Telebit. Telebits are just computers with ROM's in them and since Telebits are falling behind the tide of telecommunications I thought it might be nice to reporgram them as remote processers. The DSP's are quite fast and might give us very nice random numbers, the box has buffers and a CPU that can do flat out UUCP 'g' with compression so is likely more processer then most of the Fido systems out there currently. All around a nice box sitting there wasting, waiting to do something usefull. So, maybe hook up the modem with a shielded cable, cut/add something on the phone side so one of the phone line DSP can get random garbage (it might be much easyer then that once someone looks at the design of the things), reporgram the ROMS to add random noise software and maybe even do some number crunching for you (lets see a T2500 has three DSP's in it?) for encryption/decryption. This is all a bit far feched, but as time goes on there will be lots of discarded Telebits (can't do V.32bis, V.fast, FAX, Voice, DSU/CSU, etc.). XyZel also has a smart modem that one can blast ROM's for. Just something to think about on rainey days... ||ugh