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Re: Hardware RNG support for EM64T systems
From: Brett Lymn (blymn
baesystems.com.au)
Date: Sun Feb 19 2006 - 21:38:43 CST
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On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 09:44:13AM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote:
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> The thing about running a FIPS test is news to me :)
>
Regardless, it would be a Good Idea (tm) to perform some of the FIPS
tests to ensure the RNG hardware at least looks functional rather than
accepting a continuous stream of 0's (or 1's) as being "random". I
don't mean do this continuously but from memory there are some startup
tests defined by FIPS that are designed to detect malfunctioning
RNG's.
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Brett Lymn
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