On Oct 29, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Raphaël Jacquot wrote:

> 
> On 29 oct. 2011, at 22:12, Kristen Eisenberg wrote:
> 
>> 31/01/11 19.40, Marco A. Calamari wrote:
>>> 
>>> Will the enthropy-generation chip of 5501 be included in 6501 ?
>>> 
>> 
>> I wouldn't expect the same "chip" - the net5501 uses the Geode LX 
>> Security Block - an integral (crypto accelerator) component of the AMD 
>> Geode LX CPU.
> 
> unfortunately, intel appears to have no plan to include such functionality in 
> the Atom chips...
> (yeah, WTF?? indeed)

Perhaps the onboard FPGA can be used?  Phase jitter between ring oscillators is 
a common HRNG trick.
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