Intel to also add RNG

[Riad S. Wahby]

Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> A very small entity that (in its analog form) requires custom manufacturing
> steps

Depends on where they're getting their randomness from; avalanche
breakdown in deep submicron CMOS isn't practical for this reason (and
presumably this is the obvious way to do it), but I'd be curious if
anyone's ever tried to make a thermal or 1/f noise source into an RNG;
that'd take no additional process steps, though it would obviously be
process dependent.

-=rsw