From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Romain Francoise Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New function: secure-random-bytes Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:07:17 +0100 Organization: orebokech dot com Message-ID: <87obegpgca.fsf@silenus.orebokech.com> References: <87liwrh7r2.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4E04CA7B.2020101@cs.ucla.edu> <51474549.2050005@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363640850 9313 80.91.229.3 (18 Mar 2013 21:07:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 18 22:07:51 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UHhHa-0003iF-Em for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:07:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44406 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UHhHD-0005Yf-Af for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:07:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49026) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UHhH9-0005YX-5E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:07:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UHhH5-0007Ja-NM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:07:23 -0400 Original-Received: from stringer.orebokech.com ([88.190.240.207]:41803) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UHhH5-0007JE-Hw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:07:19 -0400 Original-Received: from silenus.orebokech.com (silenus [192.168.1.4]) by stringer.orebokech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8AB418800ED; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:07:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by silenus.orebokech.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A77D3A2D07; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:07:17 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <51474549.2050005@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:48:09 -0700") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 88.190.240.207 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:157931 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > There's one extra wrinkle I'd like to add while we're at it: > if available we should use the random-number instructions > in recent implementations of x86 and x86-64 architectures > as this should yield even better performance. Yes, although some people think they shouldn't be used directly but mixed with other sources, for trust reasons: http://git.kernel.org/linus/c2557a303ab6712bb6e09447df828c557c710ac9