From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 18 1:24:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BB2A37BC88; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 01:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA51655; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 01:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 01:24:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Bruce Evans Cc: Mark Murray , Bill Fumerola , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Bruce Evans wrote: > You must have a fast machine to get 10MB/sec. I see the following speeds > (using a better reading program than dd; dd gives up on EOF on the old > /dev/random): Oops, I misread the rate by 2 orders of magnitude. I get about 100K/sec on my PPro/233 :-) > old /dev/random on P5/133 5K/sec > old /dev/urandom on P5/133 244K/sec > old /dev/random on Celeron 366 overclocked to 5.5*95 25K/sec > old /dev/urandom on Celeron 366 overclocked to 5.5*95 970K/sec > new /dev/*random on Celeron 400 overclocked to 6.0*75 270K/sec Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message