Re: [dm-crypt] Encryption speed and reversing the direction

Arno Wagner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups de.saout.dm-crypt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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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