[115099] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Toshiba shows 2Mbps hardware RNG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Thu Feb 14 17:45:39 2008
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: david_koontz@xtra.co.nz, hal@finney.org
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <47AF0F54.6040707@xtra.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:08:04 +1300
"David G. Koontz" <david_koontz@xtra.co.nz> writes:
>Military silicon already has RNG on chip (e.g. AIM, Advanced INFOSEC Machine,
>Motorola),
That's only a part of it. Military silicon has a hardware RNG on chip
alongside a range of other things because they know full well that you can't
trust only a hardware/noise-based RNG, there are too many variables and too
many things that can go wrong with that single source. That's why I was
sceptical of the "we've solved the RNG problem with our custom hardware"
claim, they've created one possible source of input but not a universal
solution.
Peter.
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