[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> > 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,
That statement makes no sense to me. Why would the RNG be relevant after the session keys are established? > so I thought that it's > slow speed might confirm that the engine is being used, and is > simply slow. I don't really care how fast the crypto engine is on my Via system. I just care that it offloads the ALU. I haven't gotten around to proving whether (and by how much) it does so. > 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`? :) Not impressive. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
