17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 02:50 PM 9/20/95 -0700, you wrote:
In this sense, NSA ought to be *encouraging* Intel and IBM and Motorola to put "generate random bits" instructions into their instruction sets...
Is _that_ what was going on with Pentium division? Less seriously, thoguh, a UART might be a good place to add a random number source, since it may be able to extract randomness from communication line jitter, is usually an easily replaceable part on most machines, and communicates at a higher speed than you're likely to need for most randomness applications. #--- # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts@ix.netcom.com # Phone +1-510-247-0664 Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 #---