At 6:19 pm -0500 2000-01-26, Tom McCune wrote:
Just in case anyone else is interested in my findings on whether I could
use the Intel RNG with my Celeron machine:
I needed help to find the driver installation file at the Dell site
- I had searched for Intel RNG, but it can be found by searching
At 9:48 AM -0700 on 2/1/00, NewsScan wrote:
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It may not have been mentioned here, but Intel has
released the programmer interface specs to their RNG, at
http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/manuals/298029.pdf.
Nothing prevents the device from being used in Linux /dev/random now.
As for the concerns about back doors, the best
lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote:
As for the concerns about back doors, the best reference on
the design of the RNG remains cryptography.com's analysis at
http://www.cryptography.com/intelRNG.pdf.
The one problem I have with the RNG, based on my reading of the
analysis, is that programmers
At 9:00 PM + 2/2/2000, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote:
It may not have been mentioned here, but Intel has
released the programmer interface specs to their RNG, at
http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/manuals/298029.pdf.
Nothing prevents the device from being used in Linux /dev/random now.
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From: Arnold G. Reinhold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 5:14 PM
To: lcs Mixmaster Remailer; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PGP]: PGP 6.5.2 Random Number Generator (RNG) support
I respect Paul, but there is a matter of principle here.
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Martin Minow wrote:
http://www.cryptography.com/intelRNG.pdf.
The one problem I have with the RNG, based on my reading of the
analysis, is that programmers cannot access the "raw" bitstream,
only the stream after the "digital post-processing" that converts
the
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 09:00:33PM -0800, Dave Del Torto wrote:
At 6:19 pm -0500 2000-01-26, Tom McCune wrote:
Just in case anyone else is interested in my findings on whether I could
use the Intel RNG with my Celeron machine:
I needed help to find the driver installation file at the Dell
At 9:15 AM -0800 2/2/2000, Eric Murray wrote:
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 09:00:33PM -0800, Dave Del Torto wrote:
At 6:19 pm -0500 2000-01-26, Tom McCune wrote:
...
(A) I'm not sanguine about it being a "default" in any version of
PGP, knowing what I do and having been told more by
