My responses regarding random generator.

From: crunch@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