Use of TPM chip for RNG?

Travis H. solinym at gmail.com
Mon Jul 3 14:09:05 EDT 2006


On 7/2/06, Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> You have to be pretty careful here.  Most of the TPM chips are just rebadged
> smart cards, and the RNGs on those are often rather dubious.

My last email of the day, I promise ;-)

And if you're interested in some of the smart card developments, you
might want to check out these proceedings:

http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/smartcard99/technical.html
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/cardis02/tech.html
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