On 9/1/2011 5:12 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
Hi All,
For some time, Intel has offered a Security Driver for Windows [1]. It
basically allows us to use the 810 chipset and friends as a PRNG
source via a CSP:
if(CryptAcquireContext(&hProvider, NULL, INTEL_DEF_PROV, PROV_INTEL_SEC, 0))
{
[NB: CC'd to the randombit cryptography list, since this is an interesting
point for discussion].
Ian G writes:
>What we'll likely see now is a series of breaches at multiple levels to
>acquire and misuse certs. We've seen compromises in the past, but what makes
>this new is that we have e
Jeffrey Walton writes:
>Does anyone know if Intel is shipping an updated driver which wraps/includes
>rdrand from AVX?
I posted the following to the list a few months back:
-- Snip --
In case this is useful to anyone, here's the Windows code to use rdrand, to
complement the gcc version for Uni
Hi All,
For some time, Intel has offered a Security Driver for Windows [1]. It
basically allows us to use the 810 chipset and friends as a PRNG
source via a CSP:
if(CryptAcquireContext(&hProvider, NULL, INTEL_DEF_PROV, PROV_INTEL_SEC, 0))
{
CryptGenRandom(hProvider, size, block);
}
Do
Hi,
>> ---
>> @nocombat writes: SSL Observatory: select count(Subject) from
>> valid_certs where Issuer like '%diginotar%' â01
>> ---
>
> They've only issued 700-odd SSL certs? Wow, that's low. OTOH since their
> gravy train is mainly built around the Dutch government's PKI letter of
> marqu
