Re: Dirty Secrets of noise based RNGs

2006-07-05 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 7/4/06, Thor Lancelot Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Hifn used to make this documentation publically available but access to it now requires permission from Hifn sales -- it has been password protected on their public web site. In other words, after years of design wins based on

RE: Dirty Secrets of noise based RNGs

2006-07-05 Thread Andrew Tucker
Protego has implementation details of their hw noise based RNG product line at http://www.protego.se/products_en.htm [Moderator's note: The complete copy of the long message this responded to has been elided. Posters, PLEASE trim your postings, and please, do not top post. --Perry]

Dirty Secrets of noise based RNGs

2006-07-04 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:31:10PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: So the only hardware RNG I'd trust is one of the noise-based ones on full- scale crypto processors like the Broadcom or HiFn devices, or the Via x86's. There are some smart-card vendors who've tried to replicate this type of