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Old April 20th, 2001, 07:12 PM
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Default Re: What are the odds of that??

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
I read somwhere that certain military systems have computers hooked up to cameras watching lava lamps, using the random movment of colours to gneratee random seeds for encryption purposes.

Or something. I might have dreamt it all=-)



I think that was a University somewhere in California (or maybe it WAS a government lab - some of those are run by university types anyway). I remember looking at it 5 years ago and thinking it was a pretty cool idea.

And jimbob - a cup of tea isn't bad, but I thought it was obsoleted by bistromathics
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