[119173] in Cypherpunks
Re: sg100, Squirrels reading comprehension
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Mon Oct 18 20:10:04 1999
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 01:50:01 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199910182350.BAA07086@sofuku.monster.org>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
SS, if you have the driver, you can read the raw bits.
That is what we need. Less coffee, SS.
At 09:07 PM 10/18/99 -0000, Secret Squirrel wrote:
>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.
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