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Intel announcements at RSA '99
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Bellovin)
Wed Jan 20 17:49:53 1999
From: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:15:43 -0800
Intel has announced a number of interesting things at the RSA conference.
The most important, to me, is the inclusion of a hardware random number
generator (based on thermal noise) in the Pentium III instruction set.
They also announced hardware support for IPSEC.
