Re: Radiation Detectors from Aware Electronics

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Subject: Radiation Detectors from Aware Electronics
Author:  perry@piermont.com at internet
Date:    02-11-95 23:45


There have been several requests for information on the company that 
makes the radiation detectors with RS232 interfaces that I mentioned.
     
Here is how to reach them:
     
Aware Electronics
P.O. Box 4299
Wilmington, DE 19807
Phone (800) 729-5397
      (302) 655-3800
     
     
Perry

Perry writes:
> There have been several requests for information on the company that 
> makes the radiation detectors with RS232 interfaces that I mentioned.
>      
> Here is how to reach them:

Skip writes:
> So what does this have to do with this mailing list??

Perry recently recommended the use of background-radiation detectors as 
good cheap true RNGs. Properly deployed cryptography generally depends upon
excellent PRNGs, or preferably hardware RNGs.

Perhaps you overlooked that rather lengthy thread, Skip ?

-Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>

Futplex writes:
> Perry recently recommended the use of background-radiation detectors as 
> good cheap true RNGs. Properly deployed cryptography generally depends upon
> excellent PRNGs, or preferably hardware RNGs.

Just one comment -- I think one is better off with a tiny cheap
radiation source when using such a system than in depending on
background, but the point is the same...

Perry

sharborth@hai-net.com writes:
>      So what does this have to do with this mailing list??

Generating good random numbers is key to operating a solid
cryptographic system. I've argued that computer interfaced radiation
detectors are the optimal way of generating such numbers because they
are hard to screw up -- biased diode noise and other sources are too
easy to misdesign or misuse. Aware is a source of such detectors.

Perry

> There have been several requests for information on the company that 
> makes the radiation detectors with RS232 interfaces that I mentioned.
>      
> Here is how to reach them:
>      
> Aware Electronics
> P.O. Box 4299
> Wilmington, DE 19807
> Phone (800) 729-5397
>       (302) 655-3800
>      
>      
> Perry
> 
>