Re: drivers/char/random.c: More futzing about

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/11/2014 12:25 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 09:48:31AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> While talking about performance, I did a quick prototype of random using
>> Skein instead of SHA-1, and it was measurably faster, in part because
>> Skein produces more output per hash.
> 
> Which Skein parameters did you use, and how much stack space was
> required for it?  Skein-512 is described as needing 200 bytes of
> state, IIRC (which I assume most of which comes from Threefish key
> schedule). 
> 

I believe I used Skein-256, but I'd have to dig to find it again.

	-hpa


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