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I imagine that would make the server pretty slow in times of heavy load.
by vinceguidry 11y ago
I imagine that would make the server pretty slow in times of heavy load.
- tptacek 11y agoI doubt it. Things exercised far more strenuously than nethack rely on urandom.
- wolf550e 11y agoYou can use 24 bytes of "true" randomness (16 for key and 8 for nonce) and then get 2^64 16-byte blocks of randomness before re-keying at better than 1Gbps per core using AESNI. How much more do you need? EDIT: How is what I wrote wrong?
- tptacek 11y agoIt's not wrong, and I didn't downvote you, but I'm not sure we need to concede that anything more difficult than "read numbers from /dev/urandom" is required here. :)