Date sent: Mon, 27 May 96 23:31 MDT
To: nettime-l@desk.nl
From: Pit Schultz (pit@contrib.de)
Subject: nettime: www.random.gov

www.random.gov

is a site where one can get different random numbers related to different real world reference systems, maintained by the national random agency (NRA), an initiative to enhance the quality of random initialized encryption. it is also allowed to put the random generators into series to randomize random. The NRA is only using approved external sources located on US territory and declared secret.

the authorities sponsor a price: the first who can find a predictable order in the series will get free access to his individual files and a secure job at the NRA.

soon there grew up different tribes of young heroic code warriors which are accessing the site constantly running complex genetic real world simulators and a variety of environment data to compare it with the ouput of the NRA. if climate, clinical data, cosmological cycles, however, during the night, in any free calculating time computers in the world comparing the real with the virtual.