RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

[Elazar Leibovich]

If you're a gateway that does SSL (and thus need to do many kex)? Like F5


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about "RNG (was: Re: SSD
> drives)":
> > RDRAND is also a PRNG, reseeded at most once every 1022 calls, way
> > faster than /dev/urandom (they state 500MiB per second), and you do not
> > have its source code...
>
> Can anyone give me an example of why on earth anyone would need a
> very high throughput random number generator?
>
> I can understand why things like monte-carlo simulations and ray tracing
> might need a lot of random numbers, but for them PRNG in the program
> (e.g., rand(3)) is perfectly fine, and very fast - and there is no need
> for any of these super-duper super-secure generators in the kernel or
> the CPU...
>
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