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Re: Intel to also add RNG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Jul 13 06:53:58 2010
From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: ericm@lne.com, paul@xelerance.com
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.1007121533560.25599@newtla.xelerance.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:46:36 +1200
Paul Wouters <paul@xelerance.com> writes:
>Which is what you should do anyway, in case of a hardware failure. I know the
>Linux intel-rng and amd-rng used to produce nice series of zeros.
Do you have any more details on this? Was it a hardware problem, software
problem, ...? How was it caught?
Peter.
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