In the Pentium III, there was to be added a hardware-based random number
generated that was designed to help out software's psuedo-random number
generator. Apparently it was based on thermal noise in the CPU, which is
far more random than software... at least it would be in a thermal hothouse
like a P3! I don't know if Intel is still planning on implementing this,
because it was announced along with the chip ID thing, which pissed a bunch
of people off royally. It would have been good for crypto.
(Source:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/20/0128218&mode=thread,third reply entitled "When the serial # was announced...")
--PBr
> -----Original Message-----
> From:davevosh@... [SMTP:davevosh@...]
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> Subject:Re: [motm] LFO Tap and Division
>
> i`d love to see a source of uncorrelated ( say 3 or 4 ) random triggers
> derived from such a noise source. any chance ?
> best,
> dave v.
>