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Re: New Intel Celeron chip set has random number generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Tue Apr 27 11:52:41 1999
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:04:18 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, wghiii@openpgp.net
John Gilmore wrote:
>
> There have been mumbles about a random number generator in Intel
> executives' statements, but no solid information (e.g. where in the
> product line is this coming out?) until today. I noticed it at RSA's
> web site, but there's very sketchy info at the Intel site also. No
> technical details or programming information are yet available.
Aha! Perhaps this explains why I got a distinctly luke-warm reception
from Intel when I asked how I could go about using the randomness in
OpenSSL. Wouldn't do to go around upsetting monopolistic friends, would
it?
Cheers,
Ben.
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