coderman <coder...@gmail.com> writes: >On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Marsh Ray <ma...@extendedsubset.com> wrote: >>... >> Right, 500 MB/s of random numbers out to be enough for anybody. > >these rates often are not useful. even busy secure web or VPN servers use >orders of magnitude less. > >initialization of full disk crypto across an SSD RAID could consume it, but >that's the only "practical" use case i've encountered so far :)
Not even that, you'd just use it to seed AES-CTR and use that for the initialisation. Generator bit-rates seem to be like Javascript engine speeds, a mostly pointless [0] figure that's provided so you can show that you've managed to crank your numbers higher than everyone else's, like Benzino Napaloni and Adenoid Hynkel cranking up their barber chairs. Peter. [0] I'm hedging my bets here with "mostly", in practice I think it's closer to "entirely pointless". _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography