Re: Encryption speed and reversing the direction

Arno Wagner <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:59:29 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt
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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

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