Subject: Re: replace kernel random number function
To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/22/2000 22:50:08
On 22 Oct 2000, Michael Graff wrote:
> > Will that give us random(3) -> random(2)?
>
> No more than we have md5(2) :)
and rijndael_*(2)?
> A syscall for that would be a bad idea.
Why - because passing the ammount of data between userland and kernel and
back is too much overhead?
- Hubert
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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>