It's hard to beat back-to-back Zener diodes, a la MOTM-100/101. Cheap, too!
And no, still don't have a good date for the '101. I'm backed up to my
eyeballs.
Paul S.
----- Original Message -----
From: Brousseau, Paul E (Paul) <noise@...>
To: <motm@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 6:20 PM
Subject: RE: [motm] LFO Tap and Division [OT]
> 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@...]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 4:11 PM
> > To: motm@egroups.com
> > 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.
> >
>
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