Now I, a lurker for two months, am truelly confused! L. Deitweiler must be right. Surely one of you cyperpunk fellows could hack together a dongle with some kind of AD converter and buffer ram to gather a Truelly Random Bitstream off the environment every couple of milliseconds easier than this raindrop scheme or recording the fan, you're haviung me on!. Let's go back fifty years and get a vacuum tube to fitfully flicker? I who know next to nothing about electronics suspect there is surely enough noise present in electornic devices to gather a random bitstream that you could chop anywya you needed? Anyway, y would you need a WAN for constant raindrop number generation when you could just set up your random number node out in LaPush or up in Volcano sampling every minute ot so : ) ? My second overall question is, isn't the emphasis on encryption of e-mail and e-mail emposters somewhat shortsighted? What if, for the masses which is all that counts, e-mail migrates to voicemail? The issues aren't the same with voicemail, eg PK validation problems go out the window since voicemail validation could take the form of an PK encrypted voicegram. . Something the matter with that? It might also prevent robots from posing as persons while still allowing aliases.. Please pardon this interruption! I really do admire the frankness and quality of your newslist, its democratic open discussion on the most vital political issues facing our time ; but after reading your mail I think that either I need seriously wising up, or, somebody must know where the real newsgroup is! -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2i Comment: Requires PGP version 2.6 or later. mQCNAzBzoaUAAAEEAKwZn14pn79xPqUJW5SbJqU/B1uEtD29xe4/nXedIlc66yt0 +Zh8t/LZtO8CAQn4N5tqzN+cW0ot4yfB1lV2HYOkLCqtfeGqrZbv0q8auR0OV8fQ NvHRdlK5fbZKtFKzEA1y/eh5BQv6pq9YDsoScNdORuynOFYo60208YzGKULxAAUR tEJUaW1vdGh5IEZ1bGJyaWdodDwxMDAwMjIuMzE2N0Bjb21wdXNlcnZlLmNvbT48 Wys0NCwgMF0gMTc4MjYxMTY1MT4= =gSuk -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----