[ltp] Re: random number generator

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Marcus Better wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 
> > The TPM chip has one,
> 
> Can it be used as a general purpose entropy source?

Yes.  But it is a very expensive one, I believe (as in it does not have a
large bandwidth).

> > and the WiFi card probably has one too. 
> 
> That is not likely to be exposed though. (Hmm, maybe there is a way to get
> at the entropy without sending frames out the air?)

Ask Intel :p

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