Re: About Alpha radiation...

[gw-terisa <gw@terisa.com>]

obviously what was meant was gamma radiation, eh?

At 04:38 PM 3/24/99 -0500, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:
>
>On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:13:34 PST, Nobuki Nakatuji wrote:
>
>>He said that an alpha particle from space
>>    can knock out a transistor in the chip and modify the cipher. Then
>>    again it is a trivial matter to have not one but many CPUs
>
>Alpha ?!?  Duhhhhhh!
>
>Alphas are helium nucleus.  Two protons and two neutrons.
>They have a very shallow penetration and are usually stopped by a sheet of 
>paper.
>
>