Intel to also add RNG
Eric Murray
ericm at lne.com
Mon Jul 12 13:13:44 PDT 2010
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 03:37:45PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Eric Murray wrote:
>
>> Then there's FIPS- current 140 doesn't have a provision for HW RNG.
>> They certify software RNG only, presumeably because proving a HW RNG to be
>> random enough is very difficult. So what's probably the primary market
>> (companies who want to meet FIPS) isn't available.
>
> So you can do HWRNG -> SWRNG -> Fips ?
Last FIPS cert I did (140-2, a couple years ago), it was SWRNG only.
X9.62 or FIPS 186 or X9.31 or SP 800-90.
I couldn't even use a HW RNG for the seed. /dev/random was acceptable.
> Also,
> the VIA PadLock already ships with an HWRNG on die. It's been shipping
> for years.
True that.
Eric
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