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On 06/27/2017 07:24 PM, Paul Dale wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The
hierarchy of RNGs will overcome some of the performance
concerns. Only the root needs to call getrandom().<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I
do agree that having a DRBG at the root level is a good idea
though.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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Just to check my understanding, the claim is that adding more layers
of hashing and/or encryption will still be faster than a larger
number of syscalls?<br>
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-Ben<br>
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