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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:05
bram (bram@gawth.com)
Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:19:02 -0800 (PST)
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999 mgraffam@idsi.net wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Alex Alten wrote:
>
> > If it didn't work then some cryptographic researcher would find out, publish
> > his results on the web, Intel stock would drop by $10, they would vigorously
> > deny it for a couple of weeks, then finally they would fix it in the next
> > production run, and run an ad campaign "Intel RNG Inside". At some point
> > it would be accepted by everyone, including hardcore coderpunk's mothers, as
> > a good RNG and the stock would recover by $30.
>
> How exactly would you suggest that a research find out about the internals
> of the CPU?
Take one and disassemble it or use very powerful imaging machinery on it.
I've heard that large chip companies have tools to figure out the workings
of competitor's chips and use them all the time, and that some people have
actually gotten ready to use them to find out the workings of proprietary
algorithms, although thus far that hasn't proved necessary. (Gotta love
social engineering.)
-Bram
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:05