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Date:	Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:08:26 +1100
From:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	Ondřej Bílka <neleai@...nam.cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] AES instead of SHA1 for /dev/urandom

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  ?

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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