Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:08:26 +1100 | From | NeilBrown <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] AES instead of SHA1 for /dev/urandom |
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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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