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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: rminnich@gmail.com, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:06:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <65ed596c6c18fdd6f30e8f1c04669182@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10808271938l4d95eeebt52117ae950186026@mail.gmail.com>

>
> I don't think so. Genrandom make me want to look at using the hardware
> RNGs a few years ago, but then Intel killed firmware hub and the whole
> idea kind of went away.
>

via has release the padlock documentation.

unfortunately one needs to enable floating point
and sse to use the padlock rng.

on reading that, i decided that software rng
wasn't as slow or as important as i'd remembered.

there's also the problem of ensuring that the
hardware rng is at least as good as plan 9's.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-28 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-24 23:23 Alex Lee
2008-08-25  4:26 ` ron minnich
2008-08-25  4:32 ` ron minnich
2008-08-25  4:58   ` Alex Lee
2008-08-25  9:03     ` John Soros
2008-08-25 10:56       ` erik quanstrom
2008-08-25 14:52         ` ron minnich
2008-08-25 14:52           ` ron minnich
2008-08-25 14:59           ` erik quanstrom
2008-08-25 15:09             ` ron minnich
2008-08-25 18:48             ` John Soros
2008-08-25 18:54               ` lucio
2008-08-25 20:39                 ` John Soros
2008-08-25 21:27                 ` John Soros
2008-08-25 23:53                   ` [9fans] Anyone handy with Alpha assembler? Benjamin Huntsman
2008-08-26 15:24                     ` Paweł Lasek
2008-08-26 17:56                       ` Benjamin Huntsman
2008-08-26 22:03                         ` Paweł Lasek
2008-08-26 23:09                           ` Benjamin Huntsman
2008-08-25 22:44               ` [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25 ron minnich
2008-08-26  6:44                 ` John Soros
2008-08-28  2:28                   ` Alex Lee
2008-08-28  2:38                     ` ron minnich
2008-08-28 12:06                       ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2008-08-28  8:21                     ` John Soros
2008-08-28 15:38                       ` ron minnich
2008-08-28 16:50                         ` John Soros
2008-08-28 16:59                           ` erik quanstrom
2008-08-28 17:24                         ` Alex Lee
2008-08-28 18:07                           ` John Soros
2008-08-28  8:27                     ` Richard Miller
2008-08-28 11:55                     ` erik quanstrom
2008-08-28 17:34                       ` Alex Lee
2008-08-28  2:39                   ` ron minnich

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