On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 09:48:31AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> While talking about performance, I did a quick prototype of random using
> Skein instead of SHA-1, and it was measurably faster, in part because
> Skein produces more output per hash.

Which Skein parameters did you use, and how much stack space was
required for it?  Skein-512 is described as needing 200 bytes of
state, IIRC (which I assume most of which comes from Threefish key
schedule). 

                                                - Ted
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