On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 17:12, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2014/12/30 11:46, Ted Unangst wrote: >> RFC 864 specifies the chargen service. The RFC recommends a recognizable >> pattern, but it was also written at a time when the internet was a >> kindler, gentler place. A better recommendation for the modern >> internet would be to produce random data. >> >> Diff follows. IMO the code is easier to reason about without the >> ring arithmetic. Benchmarking reveals the code is slightly slower now >> (8MB/s vs 10MB/s), but I think that's an acceptable tradeoff. > > I am surprised at the number of + lines in this diff ;-) > > Is chargen useful for anything in the modern internet?
chargen is an RFC. We can't allow other projects to build an RFC gap!
