Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262285AbVC2MqF (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:46:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262287AbVC2MqF (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:46:05 -0500 Received: from arnor.apana.org.au ([203.14.152.115]:51472 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262285AbVC2Mpz (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:45:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:43:22 +1000 To: Evgeniy Polyakov Cc: Andrew Morton , James Morris , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Machek , cryptoapi@lists.logix.cz, Jeff Garzik , David McCullough Subject: Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11) Message-ID: <20050329124322.GA20543@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <4243A86D.6000408@pobox.com> <1111731361.20797.5.camel@uganda> <20050325061311.GA22959@gondor.apana.org.au> <20050329102104.GB6496@elf.ucw.cz> <20050329103049.GB19541@gondor.apana.org.au> <1112093428.5243.88.camel@uganda> <20050329104627.GD19468@gondor.apana.org.au> <1112096525.5243.98.camel@uganda> <20050329113921.GA20174@gondor.apana.org.au> <1112098517.5243.102.camel@uganda> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1112098517.5243.102.camel@uganda> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Herbert Xu Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1058 Lines: 25 On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:15:17PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:46 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > > 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. :) Are you intending to feed that into /dev/random at 55mb/s? If not then how is this an argument against doing it in userspace through rngd? -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/