Re: libnss x86 DRNG

2012-10-02 Thread Robert Relyea
On 10/02/2012 05:42 PM, Wan-Teh Chang wrote: On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Michael Demeter wrote: Continuation would then be to eliminate any unnecessary work being done to increase the randomness..Since the HW generated values can be used directly. This could help a small little bit in perf

Re: libnss x86 DRNG

2012-10-02 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Michael Demeter wrote: > > Continuation would then be to eliminate any unnecessary work being > done to increase the randomness..Since the HW generated values > can be used directly. This could help a small little bit in performance > (but that is a secondary effect

Re: libnss x86 DRNG

2012-10-02 Thread Michael Demeter
Thanks for the response.. See inline comments On Oct 1, 2012, at 5:22 PM, Ryan Sleevi wrote: > Hi Michael, > > There is definite interest in being able to take advantage of hardware > intrinsics - whether they be the DRNG or the AESNI instructions. For > example, NSS just recently added supp