>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Sierchio >Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 1:26 PM >To: openssl-users@openssl.org >Subject: Re: Algorithm licensing > > >Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> Actually, regardless of the cipher you use, unless you have >> a truly random source of numbers, your going to undermine the >> strength of your encryption. For an embedded system, such a >> thing has to be designed in from the get-go, as a software >> PRNG is generally nowhere near good enough. >> >> The AMD and Intel CPU's both have hardware random number >> generators on-chip. That is, the most advanced and expensive >> CPUs do. I don't know that these are in common use among >> embedded systems yet, though. > >Hardware Random Bit Generators have variable bit rates, and >maximum bit rates that peak at about 16k bps.
These guys claim 2Mbt/s on the R230: http://www.protego.se/sg200_d.htm Although, they don't say exactly how it works so there's no way to double-check their claims that it's truly random. Ted ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
