[117606] in Cypherpunks
Re: Build a better OTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Emery)
Tue Sep 7 00:35:08 1999
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 00:17:01 -0400
From: Dave Emery <die@die.com>
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
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In-Reply-To: <NDBBIFGOKODBCKDGJDKLOEKGCFAA.shamrock@cypherpunks.to>; from Lucky Green on Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:57:59PM -0700
Reply-To: Dave Emery <die@die.com>
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:57:59PM -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
> > >They're building it into their chip sets so if you buy a new computer
> > >you'll probably get it automatically. Soon, random bits will essentially
> > >be ubiquitous. Anyone who cares can have all the random numbers he
> > >wants.
> >
> > >The data rate is in the megabytes per hour range so it would take a few
> > >days to fill a CD.
> >
> > Yes but is it trustworthy?
>
> Since Intel won't allow examination by the public of the raw bits, the
> answer is "most emphatically not".
Your phrase "by the public" intrigues me. Does this imply
that there is a mechanism to do so that they are refusing to disclose
or that the only way to get at the raw bits is probing the chip ?
Sounds a bit like another tenctacle of the NSA to me...
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Dave Emery N1PRE, die@die.com DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass.
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