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From: Adam Wagman (adam.wagmancognex.com)
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 08:33:19 CDT

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    For what it's worth, the whitepaper is at
    http://www.cryptography.com/intelRNG.pdf
    -Adam

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Alex Alten [mailto:Altenhome.com]
    Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 2:45 AM
    To: Bram Cohen
    Cc: coderpunkstoad.com
    Subject: Re: Intel RNG performance?

    My original question still stands. Has anyone seen
    75 kbps in practice? I've been avoiding buying a P4
    system to try it out, because I'm not too keen on RDRAM.
    Does anyone who uses a P4 with an 815 or 830 or 850
    chipset ever tested the performance of the RNG?

    - Alex

    At 11:34 PM 6/14/2001 -0700, Bram Cohen wrote:
    >On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Bram Cohen wrote:
    >
    >> The /dev/random notion that you get more performance in exchange for
    >> the vastly reduced performance of trying to collect 'real' random bits
    >> is just plain wrong.
    >
    >I meant of course, the idea that you get more *security* in exchange for
    >the reduced performance.
    >
    >-Bram Cohen
    >
    >"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
    > -- John Maynard Keynes
    >
    > 

    --

    Alex Alten

    AltenHome.Com