Michael Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Any good idea? First prize: a bottle of something good. :-)
> In C, I've sometimes added in the memory location of an arbitrary
Security through obscurity alert!
> I believe that the P3 chips come with a noisy diode built-in,
> specifically for the purpose of generating random numbers.
Or you could look at e.g. http://isg.rainbow.com/products/ns_1.html,
where they sell a PCI card for IPsec and other crypto, complete with
"PowerPC 401 core processor, a hardware random number generator, and
two 512 bit hardware modular-exponentiators".
Apparently, the Intel i810 chipset also contains a hardware random
number generator. See
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2000-04/0191.html for
Linux support.
-kzm
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