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

The crypto people are very much concerned with jitter on their signals. Jitter provides a "covert" channel that can leak secret information, bypassing the encryption algorithms. I'm sure they work with signals that are vastly faster than 50 Mbps these days. As to how fast they want to go, I was told , "ten times faster than the fastest that is possible".

You may find this article interesting.



Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar



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