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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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