Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:39:21 +1000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11) | From | Herbert Xu <> |
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 03:42:05PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:46 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Well if you can demonstrate that you're getting a higher rate of > > throughput from your RNG by doing this in kernel space vs. doing > > it in user space please let me know. > > While raw bits reading from hw_random on the fastest > VIA boards can exceed 55mbits per second > [above quite was taken from VIA C3 Nehemiah analysis], > it is not evaluated in rngd and is not written > back to the /dev/random.
Well when you get 55mb/s from /dev/random please get back to me. -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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