Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 01:24:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007180122440.51352-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007181809430.1118-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> You must have a fast machine to get 10MB/sec. I see the following speeds
> (using a better reading program than dd; dd gives up on EOF on the old
> /dev/random):
Oops, I misread the rate by 2 orders of magnitude. I get about 100K/sec on
my PPro/233 :-)
> old /dev/random on P5/133 5K/sec
> old /dev/urandom on P5/133 244K/sec
> old /dev/random on Celeron 366 overclocked to 5.5*95 25K/sec
> old /dev/urandom on Celeron 366 overclocked to 5.5*95 970K/sec
> new /dev/*random on Celeron 400 overclocked to 6.0*75 270K/sec
Kris
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