From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 6 14: 3:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from spirit.jaded.net (shortbus.jaded.net [216.94.132.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C62CA37BA93; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:03:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@spirit.jaded.net) Received: (from dan@localhost) by spirit.jaded.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA03766; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 17:03:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 17:03:36 -0400 From: Dan Moschuk To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" Cc: Dan Moschuk , Mark Murray , arch@FreeBSD.org, phk@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: (2nd iteration) New /dev/(random|null|zero) - review, please Message-ID: <20000606170336.D3351@spirit.jaded.net> References: <200006051720.TAA18713@gratis.grondar.za> <393BEE84.BBAD3E82@vangelderen.org> <20000606160118.C3351@spirit.jaded.net> <393D5D46.6BCACDE4@vangelderen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <393D5D46.6BCACDE4@vangelderen.org>; from jeroen@vangelderen.org on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 04:21:26PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG | > Because of the significant speed decrease in using Yarrow, I'd like to see | > us keep the current implementation around, and having Yarrow as an | > option or psuedo-device to be used instead. | | Yarrow -when finished- is not noticably slower than our current | implementation of /dev/[u]random. Yarrow does one block encryption | for every output block and a generator gate every 10 blocks. This | would allow for at least 40 mbit/s output on a 200 Mhz PPro when | using Rijndael/256/256. It was my understanding that we weren't using Rijndael/256 yet. Is this going to change? -- Dan Moschuk (TFreak!dan@freebsd.org) "Don't get even -- get odd!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message