Subject: Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy
	(2.6.11)
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Reply-To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>,
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       Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, cryptoapi@lists.logix.cz,
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:15:17 +0400
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On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 21:39 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 03:42:05PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:46 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
>=20
> > > Well if you can demonstrate that you're getting a higher rate of
> > > throughput from your RNG by doing this in kernel space vs. doing
> > > it in user space please let me know.
> >=20
> > While raw bits reading from hw_random on the fastest=20
> > VIA boards can exceed 55mbits per second=20
> > [above quite was taken from VIA C3 Nehemiah analysis],=20
> > it is not evaluated in rngd and is not written=20
> > back to the /dev/random.
>=20
> Well when you get 55mb/s from /dev/random please get back to me.

I cant, noone writes 55mbit into it, but HW RNG drivers could. :)

--=20
        Evgeniy Polyakov

Crash is better than data corruption -- Arthur Grabowski

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