[107742] in Cypherpunks
Re: CDR: Re: Adieu Privacy: Intel identifiziert Chips
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Mynott)
Fri Jan 22 04:15:23 1999
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:02:39 +0000
From: Steve Mynott <steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk>
To: Sunder <sunder@brainlink.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <36A77BDE.7E7A34A5@brainlink.com>; from Sunder on Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 02:11:35PM -0500
Reply-To: Steve Mynott <steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk>
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 02:11:35PM -0500, Sunder wrote:
> The HRNG >might< be useful in that now we can get a source of true random
> numbers, but there's a big IF attached. It is questionable that this HRNG
> will produce true random numbers and unknown whether or not there are
> patterns. I suppose whitening the output of this and also using the system
> process table, mouse position, and system time, trough something like BBS
> would do the trick.
Would you trust Intel's RNG?
Sounds like an excellent potential backdoor to me :-)
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