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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:58:16 +0100
From: Ondřej Bílka <neleai@...nam.cz>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] AES instead of SHA1 for /dev/urandom
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 01:08:26PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 03:03:54 +0100 Ondřej Bílka <neleai@...nam.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 ?
>
Yes
> 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?
>
No as AES is a HWRNG about as much as horse is type of automobile.
Ondra
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