If you're a gateway that does SSL (and thus need to do many kex)? Like F5
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il>wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about "RNG (was: Re: SSD > drives)": > > RDRAND is also a PRNG, reseeded at most once every 1022 calls, way > > faster than /dev/urandom (they state 500MiB per second), and you do not > > have its source code... > > Can anyone give me an example of why on earth anyone would need a > very high throughput random number generator? > > I can understand why things like monte-carlo simulations and ray tracing > might need a lot of random numbers, but for them PRNG in the program > (e.g., rand(3)) is perfectly fine, and very fast - and there is no need > for any of these super-duper super-secure generators in the kernel or > the CPU... > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Jan 3 2013, 21 Tevet > 5773 > n...@math.technion.ac.il > |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Early bird gets the worm, but the > second > http://nadav.harel.org.il |mouse gets the cheese. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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