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Re: Intel RNG still available?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Thu Apr 10 18:33:16 2003
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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:33:11 -0700
To: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: Carl Ellison <cme@acm.org>, cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: <20030409155809.B5243@hexapodia.org>
At 03:58 PM 04/09/2003 -0500, Andy Isaacson wrote:
>It sounds to me like going to a car dealer and demanding an automobile
>made with steel mined in Minnesota. Perhaps they exist, but the
>salesperson has absolutely no reason to have such detailed information
>about the product they sell.
It's more like looking for a car with anti-lock braking or
passenger-side airbags (if those features hadn't caught on).
Carl wasn't looking for those chips just because they're chips,
he was looking for the feature, and that was the only implementation of them.
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