On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:08 AM, Jon Callas <j...@callas.org> wrote: > ... > I have to disagree with you. Lots of us have told Intel that we really need > to see the raw bits, and lots of us have gotten informal feedback that we'll > see that in a future chip.
i've never seen this stated; it would be great news! (as long as not in reference to RDSEED, which is closer but still not the raw bits...) > Better, however, would be to continue using whatever software RNG you're > using, and reseed it with whatever you're doing now and throw an RDRAND > reading in. It won't hurt anything no matter how badly it's broken and helps > against any number of things. agreed. the current state of entropy on most systems is horribly poor... _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
