[114895] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Toshiba shows 2Mbps hardware RNG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Sun Feb 10 17:31:39 2008
To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:30:50 -0500
In-Reply-To: <E1JO2SG-0002a3-Ev@wintermute01.cs.auckland.ac.nz> (Peter Gutmann's message of "Sun\, 10 Feb 2008 16\:02\:08 +1300")
pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes:
> I've always wondered why RNG speed is such a big deal for anything but a few
> highly specialised applications.
Perhaps it isn't, but any hardware RNG is probably better than none
for many apps, and they've managed to put the whole thing in a quite
small bit of silicon. The speed is probably icing on the cake.
--
Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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