[39880] in Cypherpunks
Re: Project: a standard cell random number generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Sep 22 08:59:18 1995
To: jim@acm.org
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Sep 1995 04:10:34 PDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 08:57:32 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Jim Gillogly writes:
> > futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex) writes:
> > Does Tessera include any form of hardware RNG ?
>
> Yes. Here's a released CAPSTONE spec sheet.
That probably means that this sort of thing *can* be made cost
effective on ordinary chips. Now we have to get Tim to lobby Intel to
put RNGs on the P7 chip :-)
Perry
