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Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: /
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2024-07-02 16:38:46
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Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: on Nostr: Which kernel version are you running? If it's 4.8 or newer, it's ChaCha20. If it's ...

Which kernel version are you running? If it's 4.8 or newer, it's ChaCha20.

If it's 5.6 or newer, /dev/random no longer blocks.

If it's 5.19 or newer, the entropy pool is hashed with SipHash and ChaCah20 is using fast key erasure, with a lot of performance improvements.

The kernel developers rejected my patch to replace ChaCha20 with ChaCha8, providing a 2.5x speedup. Bastards. :)
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