On Jul 22, 2010, at 8:59 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
It's pretty outrageous that anyone would try to patent rolling barcoded
dice to generate random numbers.
I've been generating random strings from dice for years. I find that
gamers' 20-sided dice are great; each roll gives you a hex digit,
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 05:59:50PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
It's pretty outrageous that anyone would try to patent rolling barcoded
dice to generate random numbers.
If you have children at home you could just point a webcam at their
gameroom, or, depending on how obsessive compulsive their
Hi Florian,
On Jul 23, 2010, at 1:14 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
* David McGrew:
can I ask what your interest in AEAD is? Is there a particular
application that you have in mind?
I just want to create a generic API which takes a key (most of the
time, a randomly generated session key) and
Florian Weimer writes:
I just want to create a generic API which takes a key (most of the time, a
randomly generated session key) and can encrypt and decrypt small blobs.
Application code should not need to worry about details (except getting
key management right, which is difficult enough).
Florian Weimer wrote:
* David McGrew:
can I ask what your interest in AEAD is? Is there a particular
application that you have in mind?
I just want to create a generic API which takes a key (most of the
time, a randomly generated session key) and can encrypt and decrypt
small blobs.
