chip-level randomness?

[Eric Rescorla]

"R. A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com> writes:
> I'm rooting around for stuff on hardware random number generation.
> 
> More specificially, I'm looking to see if anyone has done any
> entropy-collection at the chip-architecture level as part of the logic of a
> chip.
> 
> I saw somewhere the intel had done it as part of the Pentium, for instance,
> but I can't find out whether it's an actual entropy collector, or just a
> PRNG.
It's  physical noise generator feeding into some postprocessing.

See: http://www.cryptography.com/intelRNG.pdf

-Ekr



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