Timings for random

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sun Jan 29 12:41:35 UTC 2017


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> > What about the OpenSSL RAND_bytes()? 
> 
> It's slightly faster than RAND_pseudo_bytes()  :)  ??

And what we're now using.  I finished the cleanup last night; everything
goes through OpenSSL now, the local MD5 and SHA-1 code is gone, and the
depenendency on libsodium has been abolished.

Hal, thanks for nudging me about this.  Everybody, thanks for the
supporting analysis.  We dropped about 400 LOC.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>


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