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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