On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 03:03:54 +0100 Ondřej Bílka <nel...@seznam.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 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majord...@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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