Henry Spencer wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Anonymous wrote:
> > Everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that there will be a hardware RNG,
> > well designed and carefully analyzed, installed on nearly every Intel
> > based system that is manufactured after 1999. There is no need for a
> > third party board, at least not on Intel architectures.
>
> At least not on Intel architectures *with Intel(TM) processors*. And even
> that assumes that this feature will *continue* to exist on the processors,
> which is by no means guaranteed. (I'm told that Intel is already mumbling
> about moving it into the support chipset instead, and I can easily see
> that it might exist only in some variants.)
My information (from Intel insiders) says that this has already happened: the
hardware RNG has been moved from the CPU to the chip set. It seems to be a
topic of debate whether that is good or bad news. At least one poster claimed
it was good, because the Intel chipset was likely to be more pervasive than the
new high-end CPUs.
Crispin
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