Toshiba shows 2Mbps hardware RNG

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Sun Feb 10 17:30:50 EST 2008


pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes:
> I've always wondered why RNG speed is such a big deal for anything but a few
> highly specialised applications.

Perhaps it isn't, but any hardware RNG is probably better than none
for many apps, and they've managed to put the whole thing in a quite
small bit of silicon. The speed is probably icing on the cake.

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Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com

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