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Re: Toshiba shows 2Mbps hardware RNG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pat Farrell)
Wed Feb 13 12:24:31 2008
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:40:19 -0500
From: Pat Farrell <pfarrell@pfarrell.com>
Reply-To: pfarrell@pfarrell.com
CC: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <87odaosaud.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 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.
One of the benefits of speed is that you can use cleanup code to control
bias. Carl Ellison put some out on his website last century.
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Pat Farrell
http://www.pfarrell.com/
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