---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [zs-p2p] [Cryptography] Fwd: [IP] 'We cannot trust' Intel and Via's chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say To: cryptography@metzdowd.com I have to take back my criticism of Intel's RNG. I got my sims working for a version of their architecture in .35u CMOS, and it's simply better than my "Infinite Noise Multiplier". It's probably the best true random noise generator ever. I still don't like how their schematic is seems highly sensitive to supply noise, but we don't know what the actual circuit looks like. Intel hasn't told us. So, I'm going to modify it a bit to use the resistors available on my chip and reduce the caps, fix the supply sensitivity, and I think I can run 16 of these things in parallel at 100-200MHz on the tiny .35u CMOS chip I'm designing. I'll spit out the raw waveforms from the inverters, buffered once, through 16 "analog" pins, so there wont be any fear (hopefully) that I'm cooking the data on-chip, before you can see it, and I'll open-source the schematics. If there's a circuit that can consume all 1.6Gbit/sec of this raw data, have fun with it! On the digital side, I'll XOR bits together to get the bandwidth down to something reasonable, which I can send over USB, and provide a simple Linux driver. This thing will definitely put out RF, but since I'm making the raw data available at the pins, should I care? By the way, this is just a for-fun project at work. I get to do a free chip design :-)