Ketil Malde wrote:
> Michael Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I believe that the P3 chips come with a noisy diode built-in,
> > specifically for the purpose of generating random numbers.
>
> 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.

Oops, my bad. I guess it's P3 *motherboards* that come with the random
number generator. Thanks for the correction.

- Michael Hobbs

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