Dirty Secrets of "noise based" RNGs

Chris Kuethe chris.kuethe at gmail.com
Tue Jul 4 23:43:41 EDT 2006


On 7/4/06, Thor Lancelot Simon <tls at rek.tjls.com> wrote:
> 2) Hifn used to make this documentation publically available but access
>    to it now requires permission from Hifn sales -- it has been password
>    protected on their public web site.  In other words, after years of
>    design wins based on little but open-source friendliness (after all,
>    Hifn's chips are no faster, often slower, than others', and notoriously
>    buggy) they are now, at least on this issue, biting the hand that feeds
>    them.

ftp://ftp.hifn.com/ - it's a little shaky right now, but lots of
people have mirrored its contents. ;) keep an eye on it.

CK

-- 
GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?

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