From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 6 23:11:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gratis.grondar.za (grouter.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F74C37B6EE; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 23:11:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.za) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.133]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA24440; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 08:11:48 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.za) Message-Id: <200006070611.IAA24440@gratis.grondar.za> To: Dan Moschuk Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" , arch@FreeBSD.org, phk@FreeBSD.org From: Mark Murray Subject: Re: (2nd iteration) New /dev/(random|null|zero) - review, please References: <20000606170336.D3351@spirit.jaded.net> In-Reply-To: <20000606170336.D3351@spirit.jaded.net> ; from Dan Moschuk "Tue, 06 Jun 2000 17:03:36 -0400." Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 08:11:46 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > | 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? The original plan was for SHA1/DES3; I am listening to counter-arguments. I may use Rijndael; I may use Blowfish. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message