Via puts RNGs on new processors

[David Honig]

At 12:20 PM 4/8/03 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>The new Via Technologies x86 clone processors appear to have on-board
>cryptography support, including a hardware random number generator.
>
>http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR030122Nehemiah.jsp



Sec 3.1: 

When exiting low-power mode, the contents of the shift register are
discarded and the next complete byte destined for the shift register is
also discarded.                      ^^^^	                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Did they mean "bit" vs "byte"?  
Or did they mean "FIFO" instead of "shift register"?  [I think so]







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