Re: Intel announcements at RSA '99

James A. Donald (jamesd@echeque.com)
Sat, 23 Jan 1999 15:29:26 -0800

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At 02:43 PM 1/23/99 -0500, mgraffam@idsi.net wrote:
> We can run a battery of tests on the output of SHA-1 and a
> good hardware generator until we are blue in the face, and
> they will look basically the same.
>
> [...]
>
> I don't trust Snake Oil Inc's claims about their security,
> and just because Intel is a multibillion dollar corporation
> doesn't mean their word is any better.

We are working from garbled information that appears to have
been filtered through layers of ignorant marketroids.
Probably in due course Intel will release better information.

If it does not, then will be the time to get worried.

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