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Date:      Tue, 6 Jun 2000 17:03:36 -0400
From:      Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
Cc:        Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, arch@FreeBSD.org, phk@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: (2nd iteration) New /dev/(random|null|zero) - review, please
Message-ID:  <20000606170336.D3351@spirit.jaded.net>
In-Reply-To: <393D5D46.6BCACDE4@vangelderen.org>; from jeroen@vangelderen.org on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 04:21:26PM -0400
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| > 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!"


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