Good one! Why did the Japanese GRAPE team decide to design their own processors? From a report I read, seemingly exactly this reason, only stated by them as a cost factor.
Can't trust the hardware anymore, for it has become the software. > Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 12:34:51 -0500 > Subject: Re: [agi] Couple thoughts > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 4:48 AM, John Rose via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > > Conveniently there is now a random number generator built into Intel CPU's: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand I wonder what the quality of that is? > > It uses thermal noise passed through a cryptographic hash function. It > ought to be safe. Yet there is lingering doubt due to the NSA's > attempt to plant backdoors in NIST crypto standards and bribe RSA > Security $10 million to put the backdoor in their crypto software. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG > > If you are paranoid (could the NSA have bribed Intel too?), then I > suggest mixing RDRAND output with other entropy sources through > another hash, like BSD already does with /dev/random. > > I guess this is AGI related in that peers in a distributed system need > a secure way to authenticate each other to prevent spammers from > injecting forged messages. > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/26941503-0abb15dc > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
