chip-level randomness?

[Sandy Harris]

"R. A. Hettinga" wrote:
> 
> I'm rooting around for stuff on hardware random number generation.

RFC 1750 is a standard reference. There's a draft of a rewrite on ietf.org.
 
> 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.

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



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