Ben Laurie <b...@google.com> writes: >On 2 July 2010 13:19, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: >> >>http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=25670&channel=Briefings§ion=Microprocessors >> >>Tuesday, June 29, 2010 >> >>Nanoscale Random Number Circuit to Secure Future Chips >> >>Intel unveils a circuit that can pump out truly random numbers at high speed. > >Have they forgotten the enormous amount of suspicion last time they tried this?
You mean rampant paranoia from a small group of people... if you are genuinely worried about this, just use it as another input to mix into your entropy pool (which you should be doing anyway, never trust a single source of entropy). I'd be quite happy to use the RNG on a Loongson CPU (if there was one) in this manner, let alone an Intel CPU. What killed it wasn't paranoia about Intel but their almost total lack of interest in supporting it once the initial media attention waned. This doesn't look any different, note that it's not saying "This will be in Core2's starting August" but "We've done this in the lab". Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com
