Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Bruce Evans wrote:

> You must have a fast machine to get 10MB/sec.  I see the following speeds
> (using a better reading program than dd; dd gives up on EOF on the old
> /dev/random):

Oops, I misread the rate by 2 orders of magnitude. I get about 100K/sec on
my PPro/233 :-)

> old /dev/random  on P5/133                                5K/sec
> old /dev/urandom on P5/133                              244K/sec
> old /dev/random  on Celeron 366 overclocked to 5.5*95    25K/sec
> old /dev/urandom on Celeron 366 overclocked to 5.5*95   970K/sec
> new /dev/*random on Celeron 400 overclocked to 6.0*75   270K/sec

Kris

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