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Re: Use of TPM chip for RNG?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Travis H.)
Tue Jul 4 12:13:03 2006
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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 13:09:05 -0500
From: "Travis H." <solinym@gmail.com>
To: "Peter Gutmann" <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, hal@finney.org
In-Reply-To: <E1FxEDO-0000GF-00@medusa01.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
On 7/2/06, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> You have to be pretty careful here. Most of the TPM chips are just rebadged
> smart cards, and the RNGs on those are often rather dubious.
My last email of the day, I promise ;-)
And if you're interested in some of the smart card developments, you
might want to check out these proceedings:
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/smartcard99/technical.html
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/cardis02/tech.html
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