On 2017-08-10 15:25, Hugo Mills wrote:
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 01:41:21PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
On 08/10/2017 04:30 AM, Eric Biggers wrote:
Theses benchmarks are misleading because they compress the whole file as a
single stream without resetting the dictionary, which isn't how data will
t
On 2017-08-10 13:24, Eric Biggers wrote:
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 07:32:18AM -0400, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:
On 2017-08-10 04:30, Eric Biggers wrote:
On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 07:35:53PM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote:
It can compress at speeds approaching lz4, and quality approaching lzma
On 2017-08-10 07:32, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:
On 2017-08-10 04:30, Eric Biggers wrote:
On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 07:35:53PM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote:
It can compress at speeds approaching lz4, and quality approaching lzma.
Well, for a very loose definition of "approaching", and
On 2017-08-10 04:30, Eric Biggers wrote:
On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 07:35:53PM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote:
It can compress at speeds approaching lz4, and quality approaching lzma.
Well, for a very loose definition of "approaching", and certainly not at the
same time. I doubt there's a use case f
On 2016-06-22 01:16, Stephan Mueller wrote:
Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2016, 15:31:07 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn:
Hi Austin,
Little data, interesting statement for results on 200+ systems including
all major CPU arches all showing information leading in the same
directions.
Let me try
On 2016-06-21 14:04, Stephan Mueller wrote:
Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2016, 13:51:15 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn:
6. You have a significant lack of data regarding embedded systems, which
is one of the two biggest segments of Linux's market share. You list no
results for any pre-ARMv6 sy
On 2016-06-21 09:19, Tomas Mraz wrote:
On Út, 2016-06-21 at 09:05 -0400, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:
On 2016-06-20 14:32, Stephan Mueller wrote:
[1] http://www.chronox.de/jent/doc/CPU-Jitter-NPTRNG.pdf
Specific things I notice about this:
1. QEMU systems are reporting higher values than
On 2016-06-21 12:28, Stephan Mueller wrote:
Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2016, 12:03:56 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn:
Hi Austin,
On 2016-06-21 03:32, Stephan Mueller wrote:
Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2016, 09:12:07 schrieb Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos:
Hi Nikos,
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Stephan
On 2016-06-21 13:23, Stephan Mueller wrote:
Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2016, 13:18:33 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn:
Hi Austin,
You have to trust the host for anything, not just for the entropy in
timings. This is completely invalid argument unless you can present a
method that one guest can
On 2016-06-21 09:20, Stephan Mueller wrote:
Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2016, 09:05:55 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn:
Hi Austin,
On 2016-06-20 14:32, Stephan Mueller wrote:
Am Montag, 20. Juni 2016, 13:07:32 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn:
Hi Austin,
On 2016-06-18 12:31, Stephan Mueller wrote:
Am
On 2016-06-21 09:42, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
6. You have a significant lack of data regarding embedded systems, which is
one of the two biggest segments of Linux's market share. You list no
results for any pre-ARMv6 systems (Linux still runs on and is regularly used
on ARMv4 CPU's, and it's wo
On 2016-06-21 03:32, Stephan Mueller wrote:
Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2016, 09:12:07 schrieb Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos:
Hi Nikos,
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Stephan Mueller
wrote:
Personally, I don't really use /dev/random, nor would I recommend it
for most application programmers. At this
On 2016-06-20 14:32, Stephan Mueller wrote:
Am Montag, 20. Juni 2016, 13:07:32 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn:
Hi Austin,
On 2016-06-18 12:31, Stephan Mueller wrote:
Am Samstag, 18. Juni 2016, 10:44:08 schrieb Theodore Ts'o:
Hi Theodore,
At the end of the day, with these devices you r
On 2016-06-18 12:31, Stephan Mueller wrote:
Am Samstag, 18. Juni 2016, 10:44:08 schrieb Theodore Ts'o:
Hi Theodore,
At the end of the day, with these devices you really badly need a
hardware RNG. We can't generate randomness out of thin air. The only
thing you really can do requires user sp
On 2016-05-03 09:57, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 3:11 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:23:51AM +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
That's far from a solution and I wouldn't recommend to anyone doing
that. We cannot expect each and every program t
On 2014-03-16 18:56, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 03/03/2014 03:51 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>> When bringing a new RNG source online, it seems like it would make sense
>> to use some of its bytes to make the system entropy pool more random,
>> as done with all sorts of other devices that contain per-devi
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