From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: [RFC] DRBG: which shall be default? Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 16:40:12 +0800 Message-ID: <20160602084012.GC15226@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <1664837.3VbqQRUZed@positron.chronox.de> <1972759.dI50hI8gdY@tauon.atsec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org To: Stephan Mueller Return-path: Received: from helcar.hengli.com.au ([209.40.204.226]:54765 "EHLO helcar.hengli.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932143AbcFBIkR (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2016 04:40:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1972759.dI50hI8gdY@tauon.atsec.com> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 01:23:21PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > Hence my question: shall we leave the HMAC DRBG as default or shall we use the > CTR DRBG as default? I don't really care one way or another. BTW why did you use the crypto_cipher aes interface instead of the crypto_skcipher ctr(aes) interface which would likely make your code run many orders-of-magnitude faster, especially with aesni-intel? Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt