On Thu, 2019-03-21 at 10:42:22 UTC, George Spelvin wrote:
> This code was filling a 64K buffer from /dev/urandom in order to
> compute a CRC over (on average half of) it by two different methods,
> comparing the CRCs, and repeating.
>
> This is not a remotely security-critical application, so use
Hi George,
> This code was filling a 64K buffer from /dev/urandom in order to
> compute a CRC over (on average half of) it by two different methods,
> comparing the CRCs, and repeating.
>
> This is not a remotely security-critical application, so use the far
> faster and cheaper prandom_u32()
This code was filling a 64K buffer from /dev/urandom in order to
compute a CRC over (on average half of) it by two different methods,
comparing the CRCs, and repeating.
This is not a remotely security-critical application, so use the far
faster and cheaper prandom_u32() generator.
And, while
