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RE: An insolent provocation .... if a usb dac is very well design (and built) the pc quality should not matter

Tony,

Interesting, but fails to answer "commoditised solution".

Now I remember precisely why I find Deep Crypto so scary...Thank you not for reminding me.

Actually, I gave up on anything serious crypto in the 90's, switched to everything in the open and use cypher instead. Cypher cannot be broken mechanically, though it can be compromised (e.g. the Midway affair in WWII).

In fact, Crypto did not work well even in WWII, Enigma anyone?

In the presence of near turing capable analytic engines almost no cryptography is uncrackable.

If you ever spend time in China ( I get to go one or two times a year - married a chinese gal), the level of deep package inspection the government there employs is something else. They leave my VPN connections alone as long as I do not do anything "naughty" (meaning I am trying to look up something their censorship system think is, not Porn or the like, not even politics mostly).

But as soon as I do - my VPN connection is choked off.

0kbps. Not cut, mind you, choked off.

Then I have to change the server and reconnect. And get choked off 3 minutes later again.

And I am not using ordinary or free VPN's either (nor am I one of the usual gibronis, I use near mil spec stuff!). Because of the high annoyance factor of this I plugged about any possible leak on my machine and they still get through all the ICE, somewhere...

They must have machines that eat 256 Bit keys for a light snack, at ISP level too, to monitor what is inside my VPN Tunnel. Scary. Expensive.

Back to music.

Deep Crypto is too scary. WAY TO SCARY.

Commoditised Isolation Solutions please.

As in "Fast(ish ~100MBPS), Low Jitter (< 20pS would be nice), Cheap (say 5 USD for EIAJ Dual Mono)".

Thor

At 20 bits, you are on the verge of dynamic range covering fly-farts-at-20-feet to intolerable pain. Really, what more could we need?


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