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!

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