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From: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New function: secure-random-bytes
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:07:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obegpgca.fsf@silenus.orebokech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51474549.2050005@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:48:09 -0700")

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> 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



  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-18 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-24  7:50 New function: secure-random-bytes Leo
2011-06-24  9:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-24 17:33   ` Paul Eggert
2011-06-25  7:26     ` Leo
2011-06-27 16:10     ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-03-18 10:26     ` Leo Liu
2013-03-18 16:48       ` Paul Eggert
2013-03-18 21:07         ` Romain Francoise [this message]
2019-05-15 12:09         ` Julian Scheid
2019-05-16 17:34           ` Paul Eggert
2011-06-24 13:33 ` James Cloos
2011-06-25  7:27   ` Leo

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