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Re: Ransomware

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"Dave Garland" wrote:

> It's not a program, but there's at least one website
> https://www.random.org/
> will provide a set of your very own random numbers. Their output has been 
> certified by a number of gaming-industry bodies, though not as far as they 
> know by the NSA.

I hate to be a nit-picker, but since the general subject is nit picking I 
will have to violate my ordinary reluctance.  The computer program is only 
used as a mechanism to capture information and distribute the numbers, the 
actual source of the numbers is "The randomness comes from atmospheric 
noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number". 
IOW a transducer of some sort hooked up as an input channel to a computer. 
It sounds to me like a resistor producing white noise, or snow as they 
called it on analog TVs. That's an unimpeachable source and I like it   But, 
again, it requires an airplane or planning ahead.

With this as a source, any and all correlations between the encoded message 
and the decoded message are lost forever. 

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