[117675] in Cypherpunks
Re: Build a better OTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Wed Sep 8 18:54:19 1999
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 00:03:33 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199909082203.AAA25364@mail.replay.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
>> My point was that it's bad engineering practice for Intel to
>> design a hardware RNG that requires an OS-specific API.
> But Intel didn't design a hardware RNG that requires an
> OS-specific API. They could make a Linux API without any problem.
But that *is* an OS-specific API -- simply a different OS.
The entire argument of one OS vs. another is a red herring,
and entirely irrelevant to my argument. I argue that Intel
should have placed the RNG whitening in microcode instead of
into and OS driver, thus avoiding the entire OS issue altogether.
> Once again we have an ideologically based objection which ignores
> the reality of engineering constraints in the real world.
Rubbish. I'm claiming that good engineering practice suggests
that an OS driver is the wrong place for RNG whitening code.
