Well, who otherwise should pay for that? Consumer Federation of America? It's quite normal practice for a vendor to contract a 3rd party that performs a security assessment or penetration test. If you are a smartcard vendor it's also you who pays for Common Criteria certification of your product.
-----Original Message----- From: cryptography-boun...@randombit.net [mailto:cryptography-boun...@randombit.net] On Behalf Of Francois Grieu Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 11:04 AM To: cryptography@randombit.net Subject: Re: [cryptography] Intel RNG d...@deadhat.com wrote: > CRI has published an independent review of the RNG behind the RdRand > instruction: > http://www.cryptography.com/public/pdf/Intel_TRNG_Report_20120312.pdf where *independent* is to be taken as per this quote: "This report was prepared by Cryptography Research, Inc. (CRI) under contract to Intel Corporation" Francois Grieu _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
