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. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Suddenly a new site somewhere between Amazon and eBay > Half.com - buy or sell CDs, books, movies, video games all half price > $5 off first order, 7 days only - click here > http://click.egroups.com/1/4501/5/_/529958/_/959123970/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >
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Re: [motm] LFO Tap and Division [OT]
2000-05-23 by Paul Schreiber
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