[117624] in Cypherpunks
Re: Build a better OTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William H. Geiger III)
Tue Sep 7 14:16:15 1999
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 13:57:55 -0400
Message-Id: <199909071757.NAA09695@domains.invweb.net>
From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <cypherpunks@openpgp.net>
Reply-To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
In <199909071544.RAA12298@mail.replay.com>, on 09/07/99
at 05:44 PM, Anonymous <nobody@replay.com> said:
>These are the kinds of issues which Intel must be wrestling with. The
>mouth-foaming discussion here has amply illustrated the hostility which a
>manufacturer can experience from extremists towards any solution which is
>ideologically incorrect. There is no point in Intel releasing a Linux
>driver if it is just going to get them into more hot water. The Intel
>bashing which has been so much in evidence recently is probably making it
>even harder for them to find a way to work with the free software
>community.
It is not an issue of the "free software community". Trying to portray it
as such is disingenuous, and is a poor attempt to trivialize the security
issues involved.
The Intel RNG has *not* been peer reviewed.
There is no access to the raw bits before whitening.
There is no documentation of the interface.
There is no source code for the drivers.
Until Intel addresses the above issues their RNG will be considered
*untrustworthy* by the crypto community.
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