Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:07:59 -0700 From: soralx@cydem.org To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quiet computer Message-ID: <200610140308.00451.soralx@cydem.org> In-Reply-To: <20061012075101.Y5008@ketralnis.com> References: <78ED28FACE63744386D68D8A9D1CF5D4209C94@MAIL.corp.lumeta.com> <20061012075101.Y5008@ketralnis.com>
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> > 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
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