1995-09-22 - Re: Project: a standard cell random number generator
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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: jim@acm.org
Message Hash: 7d1623e8da67127d0cf035a67283a66716192d48be8bd00c27655fccdc403fa8
Message ID: <199509221257.IAA03853@frankenstein.piermont.com>
Reply To: <199509221110.EAA03110@mycroft.rand.org>
UTC Datetime: 1995-09-22 12:57:45 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 05:57:45 PDT
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 05:57:45 PDT
To: jim@acm.org
Subject: Re: Project: a standard cell random number generator
In-Reply-To: <199509221110.EAA03110@mycroft.rand.org>
Message-ID: <199509221257.IAA03853@frankenstein.piermont.com>
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Jim Gillogly writes:
> > futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex) writes:
> > Does Tessera include any form of hardware RNG ?
>
> Yes. Here's a released CAPSTONE spec sheet.
That probably means that this sort of thing *can* be made cost
effective on ordinary chips. Now we have to get Tim to lobby Intel to
put RNGs on the P7 chip :-)
Perry
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- 1995-09-22 (Fri, 22 Sep 95 04:10:47 PDT) - Re: Project: a standard cell random number generator - Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
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- 1995-09-22 (Fri, 22 Sep 95 04:10:47 PDT) - Re: Project: a standard cell random number generator - Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
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