Udhay Shankar reports: >http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6142935.html > >British start-up Yuzoz has announced that it will be launching its >beta service in the next two weeks--an online random-number generator >driven by astronomical events.
Heh heh. Pretty amusing. I guess the founders haven't really thought this through. One problem with such a service, of course, is total reliance upon Yuzoz: Yuzoz learns all your secret keys -- and so does any hacker who figures out how to break into Yuzoz's servers. That doesn't sound like such a great deal -- especially considering that high-quality random-number sources are not that hard to come by. I guess we can take ill-conceived startups like this as a sign of increasing awareness about the security risks and the need for security solutions, even if there is some, err, lack of sophistication about how to distinguish good security technology from bad. (Quantum crypto seems like another one for that camp. Oracle's "Unbreakable" marketing slogan was another good one.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]