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Re: Via puts RNGs on new processors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Wed Apr 9 11:20:23 2003
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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 11:57:19 +1200
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: don@mit.edu, t.c.jones@att.net
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
t.c.jones@att.net writes:
>FIPS certification requires a certain miminal tests of RNG functionality
>every time the process is started.
Presumably we'd see this as a standard part of the POST (power-on self-test)
option in Nehemiah-aware BIOSes, just as various other CPU-specific features
are managed by specific BIOSes. There'd also be a "Continue anyway if TRNG
test fails" option, enabled by default so as not to inconvenience users.
Peter.
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