[Cryptech Tech] Hardware entropy

[Warren Kumari]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Russ Housley <housley at vigilsec.com> wrote:
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> Joachim:
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>> Russ Housley wrote:
>>> If you are able to reproduce good results, I would like to see at
>>> least a million output bits posted on the website for several people
>>> to examine.
>>
>> Sure, no problem. Then you will all have to trust me that it really is
>> from the entropy source Berndt designed and not something else. ;-)
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> Of course, but at this stage of the development, this is not my biggest worry.
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>> What I therefore will (also) do is to create a new coretest design which
>> will allow anybody with the same dev board can create a FPGA design and
>> repeat the extraction.
>
> Great!

You just *know* someone will say: I'm calling shenanigans -- I ran the
test, and compared the bits to what Joachim posted online, *and my
bits are different!*

W


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> Russ
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