On 27 Mar 2015, at 17:01, Thomas Gazagnaire <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> It would also be good to port the TCP/IP stack to using nocrypto at >> the same time, to give it the IP ID and TCP ISN random sources, and >> to have more than one consumer outside of the TLS stack. This is a >> very localised patch -- it currently uses the Random module directly. > > Just a quick note on that: Hannes and David pointed out that this means we'll > depend on gmp for any unikernel using the TCP/IP stack. It's a big chunk of C > code (which takes ages to compile on the cubiboard), so that would be nice to > keep the ability to use the normal Random if wanted.
It should still be a functor rather than using the Random toplevel module directly, though. We could just supply a compatibility shim to map the Random interface into a nocrypto-style one. -anil _______________________________________________ MirageOS-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel
