On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 09:52:22PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
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> Attached is a patch which makes cprng_fast per-CPU and lockless. *IT IS NOT
> WELL TESTED YET (I haven't even run test vectors) AND IS ONLY FOR REVIEW.*
New diff, with some missing files and incorporating some more comments
Repeating what I said privately for the public record:
The changes to cprng.h expose a lot of guts of the new cprng_fast
implementation. I don't see justification for this. As I understand
it, the goals of rewriting cprng_fast are:
1. Replace the unsafe arc4random by a safer algorithm.
2. Impro
Thank you for looking at this!
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 09:33:28PM +, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
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> And the only performance constraint is that its single-threaded
> performance should not be worse than the existing arc4random-based
> cprng_fast.
This, I don't agree with, unless we're going to
