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SubjectRe: [RFC] AES instead of SHA1 for /dev/urandom
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 03:03:54 +0100 Ondřej Bílka <neleai@seznam.cz> wrote:

> I consider to speed-up /dev/urandom on recent intel processors by
> using hardware aes. Same for accelerated aes crypto.
>
> Would you accept a patch if I wrote it?

Have you read https://lwn.net/Articles/525459 ?

In particular the paragraph containing:

A member of the audience asked why the kernel couldn't just do away with
the existing system and use the HWRNG directly.

Does that answer your question in any way?

NeilBrown


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