On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 22:05, William Orr wrote:
I guess I misunderstood, as I thought that /dev/random dumped the entropy
pool, and that /dev/arandom put the random data through a stream cipher so
that grabbing random data would never block.
That was true some time ago, but since at least
Hi William,
I have an almost identical diff in my tree for a driver for octeon's
RNG. On which machines did you test this?
I wrote mine for DSR-500. But I remember the reads had some hick-ups.
Since why I did not commit the diff until now.
On Oct 23, 2013, at 4:38 AM, Paul Irofti p...@irofti.net wrote:
Hi William,
I have an almost identical diff in my tree for a driver for octeon's RNG. On
which machines did you test this?
I wrote mine for DSR-500. But I remember the reads had some hick-ups. Since
why I did not commit
On Oct 22, 2013, at 11:54 PM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 22:05, William Orr wrote:
I guess I misunderstood, as I thought that /dev/random dumped the entropy
pool, and that /dev/arandom put the random data through a stream cipher so
that grabbing random
Hi again tech@
This is my second attempt at a patch to add support for the octeon's
onboard rng. I've fixed all of the concerns (ISC license, wrong #define,
comment removal) and I've also come bearing statistics on the quality of
the entropy.
I dd'd 512M of /dev/random and ran the ent from
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 18:31, William Orr wrote:
You'll notice that there's no significant difference between the output
of the two rngs. However, with octrng the dd completed in under a minute
(more entropy in pool). Without, it took several minutes. If you want
time output, I can add that
On Oct 22, 2013, at 9:06 PM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 18:31, William Orr wrote:
You'll notice that there's no significant difference between the output
of the two rngs. However, with octrng the dd completed in under a minute
(more entropy in pool).
I can do this again with time, but pulling data from /dev/random took
significantly longer without my patch than with it.
That is not possible.
