There have been a number of third-party evaluations of the hardware RNG in the
new Pentium chip. So far it's gotten a clean bill of health. Of course, since
the Micro$oft CryptoAPI has to be invoked to get to it, I don't feel like
trusting it any further than just _initializing_ the RNG at this point.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH] avail of Pentium hardware RNG (at least
> minimally)
> on Win doze
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> From: "Penney, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> jason.penney> The new generation of Pentiums coming out on the market
> jason.penney> have a genuine (hardware) RNG built into them.
> jason.penney>
> jason.penney> On Windows, at least, let the CryptoAPI initialize the
> jason.penney> random number generator. TODO: when the new Pentiums
> jason.penney> are widespread, they should be used in place of md_rand
> jason.penney> for RNG in all cases...
>
> That sounds fine, but do we know how trustable that RNG is?
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