> > mentioned cpu, but a 100x speed difference? That doesn't seem realistic
> > to me (although if those are valid results, I'd be pretty happy with
> > that)...
> 
> Well, the Via Padlock has a hardware random-number generator, so the
> idea was to test that. It doesn't claim to be fast, just to be truly random 

Precisely. However, speed of the crypto engine should be directly
proportional to a peak speed of the RNG, so I thought that it's
slow speed might confirm that the engine is being used, and is
simply slow.
Also, we didn't really test where are those random bits coming from :P
Is the TRNG used by default, or some tinkering's in order to make it work?

BTW... `ubench`? :)

[SorAlx]  ridin' VN1500-B2
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