hmmm... I just got a message from chris, he said he will be adding
AES/Rijndael to the kernel ASAP...
According to the Rijndael spec, it seems to also function as an
excellant pseudo-random number generator...
You can find this info at:
http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/rijndael
Section 13.4 of the Rijndael Block Cipher AES Proposal [version 2],
describes this functionality. Based on the benchmark times of this
process, I don't think it would be a serious performance hit to do
this. If it's going to be in the kernel anyway...
Just a constructive suggestion.
In reply:
> In real life, machines don't always get rebooted in a completely
> controlled fashion (panic, power failure, etc.). Anything that
> makes a reboot longer or less reliable is a definite non-starter.
>
> I can guarantee you, if the current /dev/random code isn't fixed before
> it makes STABLE, folks running servers 24/7 are going to rip it right
> out.
>
> -Ed
jim
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