From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 14 10:08:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA7316A40F for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:08:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A5A443D53 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:08:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.178]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J74005XTETFMZ20@l-daemon> for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 04:08:03 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml10so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.80]) by pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J74006DUETF3YM1@pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 04:08:03 -0600 (MDT) Received: from soralx.cydem.org ([24.87.27.3]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J7400IPDETEY1D0@l-daemon> for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 04:08:03 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:07:59 -0700 From: soralx@cydem.org In-reply-to: <20061012075101.Y5008@ketralnis.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-id: <200610140308.00451.soralx@cydem.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <78ED28FACE63744386D68D8A9D1CF5D4209C94@MAIL.corp.lumeta.com> <20061012075101.Y5008@ketralnis.com> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Subject: Re: Quiet computer X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:08:03 -0000 > > mentioned cpu, but a 100x speed difference? That doesn't seem realistic > > to me (although if those are valid results, I'd be pretty happy with > > that)... > > Well, the Via Padlock has a hardware random-number generator, so the > idea was to test that. It doesn't claim to be fast, just to be truly random Precisely. However, speed of the crypto engine should be directly proportional to a peak speed of the RNG, so I thought that it's slow speed might confirm that the engine is being used, and is simply slow. Also, we didn't really test where are those random bits coming from :P Is the TRNG used by default, or some tinkering's in order to make it work? BTW... `ubench`? :) [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2