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Re: Intel RNG still available?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cryptography@ka9q.net)
Tue Apr 22 11:41:53 2003
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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:15:49 -0700
> The OpenBSD source code claims that the 810, 810e, 815, 820, 840, 850,
> and 860 all provide the RNG. The conspicuous missing entry on the list
> is the 845, which appears on all the Intel-chipset Pentium 4
> motherboards currently available from my local whitebox shop.
My whitebox Pentium 4 system has the 810 RNG, and it works. I'm not
sure which series motherboard it is; it's the one that uses cheap
commodity SDRAM, not Rambus or DDR memory.
Linux also supports the Intel 810 hardware RNG. Debian provides a
"rngd" daemon that reads the hardware RNG and shovels the bits into
/dev/random. I have it running on all my machines that support it.
Phil
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