In <004801bf8d12$14472d80$1403a8c0@cogent.ca> Sam Roberts (sam@cogent.ca) wrote:
> There was some discussion of /dev/random on an ipsec
> related list mentioning that new Intel h/w would have a built
> in random number generator. I went looking, and managed to
> find documentation for it ("Intel 82802 Firmware Hub: Random
> Number Generator", 298029.pdf, from www.intel.com).
> Using it appears trivial, but I can't seem to figure out one
> piece of info: the pseudo-code in it appears to assume that
> the FWH is mapped into a known location, and the
> documentation for the FWH ("Intel(R) 82802AB/82802AC
> Firmware Hub (FWH)", 29065802.pdf) seems to imply
> that how to do that is proprietary.
> Does anybody have any info on this? Are they not going
> to make programming info for the FWH public? Any
> chance of using this as another entropy source? Has
> anybody looked at this?
Some patch flied here month or so ago. Since I have no such beast I'm not kept
copy but perhaps you can find something in the archives. Discussion ended with
question: how much enthropy Intel RNG will give us ? GUARANTEED enthropy that
is...
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