Re: Intel 810 Random Number Generator

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

On 26-Jan-00 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Very easy to work around.  A keyboard that's being pounded on
> generates:
> 
> MAKE BREAK MAKE BREAK MAKE BREAK MAKE BREAK
> 
> A keyboard that's autorepeating generates:
> 
> MAKE MAKE MAKE MAKE MAKE MAKE MAKE MAKE MAKE
> 
> Therefore, you ignore a MAKE signal from any key that you already know
> is down. 

PGP did this by ignoring two strokes from one key in a row, so you had to
alternate between at least two keys.

        J