> FWIW, that whole Pentium III fiasco regarding privacy was
> about the CPU ID
> on the chip. Well, Intel built a hardware RNG onto the chip
> which is used
> in the process of psuedo-encrypting this value. Not sure
> about the details,
> but I'm pretty sure it's just picking up thermal noise.
For modest quantities of true random numbers - see
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
Robert
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