Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?

EE Times is carrying the following story: http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=190900759 It is about attempts to use cryptography to protect chip designs from untrustworthy fabrication facilities, including a technology from Certicom. Unlike ordinary DRM, which I think

Re: NIST recommendations for PRNGs

On 6/14/06, Perry E. Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: via Bruce Schneier's blog: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-90/SP800-90_DRBG_June2006.pdf It was updated June 30 to the "final" version: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-90/SP800-90_DRBG-June2006-final.pdf M