[119165] in Cypherpunks
SG100
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Secret Squirrel)
Mon Oct 18 17:28:13 1999
Date: 18 Oct 1999 21:07:37 -0000
From: Secret Squirrel <secret_squirrel@nym.alias.net>
Message-ID: <bb10e6b976b6d4b82430f91d3e9dc472@anonymous>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Secret Squirrel <secret_squirrel@nym.alias.net>
The OTHER anonymous wrote:
>Seems these folks found a clue!
<snip>
>We have today released the complete source for our SG100
>Hardware Random Number Generator. The purpose of the release,
>of the source code, is to give our customers a better understanding
>of our product. The internal workings of the hash function, inside
>the SG100 driver, could be of interest to sci.crypt readers as
>this hash function is especially designed to extract entropy from a
>source with correlations and statistical deficiencies.
and seems as if you've lost a clue...
hash functions are 1 way.We already have the source for the
HASH even for Intel's chip (SHA-1). The interesting thing to
see is the raw bits BEFORE hashing.
having the source for the hash doesn't help us derive
input bits from output bits ;)
the web page/and or their product may in fact give more than
stated.but claiming to release the source is irrelevant and
youre missing the point.
