 |
| |||
haveged is a daemon that replenishes the /dev/random swimming pool on Linux making use of an adaptation of the Components Risky Entropy Gathering and Enlargement algorithm invented at IRISA. The algorithm tunes itself on machines that have cpuid support, and it tested to perform on bots 32 and 64 - little bit processors.
In follow, the selection sequence is composed of a department - hefty calculation that reads the processor time stamp readings into an information array as it permutes the array contents. The knowledge array is sized to be 2 times that of the degree one data cache and the calculation constructed so that two cache blocks are occasion to each and every output calculation. The calculation would be cyclical if not for the consequences of other unrelated hardware activities on the time stamp counter increments.
Product's homepage
What's New in This Release : [ read through entire changelog ]
· This version corrects a config typo to deal with developing on generic architectures.
Via: haveged 1.6a
No comments:
Post a Comment