[openssl-dev] Work on a new RNG for OpenSSL

[Salz, Rich]

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From: Benjamin Kaduk via openssl-dev [mailto:openssl-dev at openssl.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 9:22 PM
To: openssl-dev at openssl.org; Paul Dale <paul.dale at oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [openssl-dev] Work on a new RNG for OpenSSL

On 06/27/2017 07:24 PM, Paul Dale wrote:

The hierarchy of RNGs will overcome some of the performance concerns.  Only the root needs to call getrandom().
I do agree that having a DRBG at the root level is a good idea though.


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?

-Ben
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