From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 95 12:07:47 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Project: a standard cell random number generator
Message-ID: <199509211907.MAA18413@ix.ix.netcom.com>
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At 02:50 PM 9/20/95 -0700, you wrote:
> In this sense, NSA ought to be *encouraging* Intel and
>IBM and Motorola to put "generate random bits" instructions into
>their instruction sets...

Is _that_ what was going on with Pentium division?  
Less seriously, thoguh, a UART might be a good place to add a random
number source, since it may be able to extract randomness from communication
line jitter, is usually an easily replaceable part on most machines,
and communicates at a higher speed than you're likely to need for
most randomness applications.

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