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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, price@mit.edu
Subject: Re: drivers/char/random.c: More futzing about
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:44:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5398F7F9.9000106@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5398BF08.5070005@linux.intel.com>

On 06/11/2014 01:41 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 06/11/2014 12:25 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 09:48:31AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> While talking about performance, I did a quick prototype of random using
>>> Skein instead of SHA-1, and it was measurably faster, in part because
>>> Skein produces more output per hash.
>>
>> Which Skein parameters did you use, and how much stack space was
>> required for it?  Skein-512 is described as needing 200 bytes of
>> state, IIRC (which I assume most of which comes from Threefish key
>> schedule). 
>>
> 
> I believe I used Skein-256, but I'd have to dig to find it again.
> 
> 	-hpa
> 

Sadly I can't find the tree, but I'm 94% sure it was Skein-256
(specifically the SHA3-256 candidate parameter set.)

	-hpa



  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-12  0:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-09  0:05 [RFC PATCH] drivers/char/random.c: Is reducing locking range like this safe? George Spelvin
2014-06-09  1:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-09  2:10   ` George Spelvin
2014-06-09  2:18     ` George Spelvin
2014-06-09  4:03       ` George Spelvin
2014-06-09  9:23         ` George Spelvin
2014-06-09 13:34         ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-09 15:04           ` George Spelvin
2014-06-09 15:50             ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-09 16:11               ` George Spelvin
2014-06-10  0:20               ` drivers/char/random.c: more ruminations George Spelvin
2014-06-10  1:20                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-10  3:10                   ` George Spelvin
2014-06-10 15:25                     ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-10 20:40                       ` George Spelvin
2014-06-10 21:20                         ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-11  0:10                           ` George Spelvin
2014-06-11  2:08                             ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-11  3:58                               ` George Spelvin
2014-06-11 13:11                                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-12  0:42                                   ` George Spelvin
2014-06-12  1:03                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-11  4:34                               ` George Spelvin
2014-06-11 13:09                                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-11  2:21                             ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-09 13:17   ` drivers/char/random.c: More futzing about George Spelvin
2014-06-11 16:38     ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-11 16:48       ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-11 19:25         ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-11 20:41           ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-12  0:44             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-06-12  1:51               ` George Spelvin
2014-06-12  0:32       ` George Spelvin
2014-06-12  3:22         ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-12  4:13           ` random: Benchamrking fast_mix2 George Spelvin
2014-06-12 11:18             ` George Spelvin
2014-06-12 20:17               ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-12 20:46               ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-13  0:23                 ` George Spelvin
2014-06-13 15:52                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-14  2:10                     ` George Spelvin
2014-06-14  3:06                       ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-14  5:25                         ` George Spelvin
2014-06-14  6:24                           ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-14  8:03                             ` George Spelvin
2014-06-14 11:14                               ` George Spelvin
2014-06-14 15:13                                 ` George Spelvin
2014-06-14 16:33                                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-15  0:23                                     ` George Spelvin
2014-06-15  1:17                                       ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-15  6:58                                         ` George Spelvin
2014-06-15 13:01                                           ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-14  6:27                           ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-14  4:55                     ` [RFC] random: is the IRQF_TIMER test working as intended? George Spelvin
2014-06-14  6:43                       ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-14  7:23                         ` George Spelvin
2014-06-12  3:43       ` drivers/char/random.c: More futzing about George Spelvin

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