MOTM

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.
>

> And no, still don't have a good date for the '101. I'm backed up to my
> eyeballs.

*visualizes Paul standing in an eyeball high pile of resistors and op
amps and Vactrols*

*winces at thought of all those leads poking into skin*

Chris Jeris

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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