On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 12:48:34PM -0800, Gary E. Miller wrote: > Yo Hal! > > On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:39:02 -0800 > Hal Murray <hmur...@megapathdsl.net> wrote: > > > Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2120 CPU @ 3.30GHz > > Stdlib: 1000000 calls to rand() took 0.021 microseconds each > > Sodium: 1000000 calls to randombytes_buf() took 0.367 microseconds > > each > > OpenSSL: 1000000 calls to RAND_pseudo_bytes() took 0.630 > > microseconds each > > rand() and RAND_pseudo_rand() are not random, just psuedo random, thus > not for NTP.
I have no idea what you're using random numbers for, but if unpredicable is what you want rand() is probably not what you want. > What about the OpenSSL RAND_bytes()? RAND_pseudo_rand() has been deprecated anyway. The only difference in behaviour was when it didn't get seeded properly. Kurt _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
