On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 04:59:29PM +0200, Arno Wagner wrote: > 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. Sure, just using /dev/urandom (or getrandom()) should be the first choice. I was talking about the rare case where those still aren't fast enough. - Eric _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
