Timings for random

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:39:02 -0800
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

> Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2120 CPU @ 3.30GHz
> Stdlib: 1000000 calls to rand() took 0.021 microseconds each
> Sodium: 1000000 calls to randombytes_buf() took 0.367 microseconds
> each 
> OpenSSL: 1000000 calls to RAND_pseudo_bytes() took 0.630
> microseconds each

rand() and RAND_pseudo_rand() are not random, just psuedo random, thus
not for NTP.

What about the OpenSSL RAND_bytes()?

RGDS
GARY
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