On 2012-06-20 5:22 AM, Matthew Green wrote:
If you assume that every manufactured device will meet the standards of Intel's 
test units, then you can live with the CRI/Intel review.

If you're /not/ confident in that assumption, the ability to access raw ES 
output would be useful...

I see no valid case for on chip whitening. Whitening looks like a classic job for software. Why waste chip real estate on something that will only be used 0.0001% of the time? Whitening is never going to have an impact on performance, while it has an impact on our ability to know where our supposedly random numbers are coming from.

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