On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 04:44:50 CEST, Eric Biggers wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 02:05:35AM -0400, John Lee McMahon wrote: [...] > Also if you actually care about random number generation performance, you > shouldn't be going through the kernel at all, except to read an initial > seed. [...] Not anymore. /dev/urandom has pretty good performance now. On my very old Phenom II fileserver, I get about 270MB/sec with a 5.x kernel. Regards, Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
