Quiet computer

[Lowell Gilbert]

soralx at cydem.org writes:

>> > mentioned cpu, but a 100x speed difference? That doesn't seem realistic
>> > to me (although if those are valid results, I'd be pretty happy with
>> > that)...
>> 
>> Well, the Via Padlock has a hardware random-number generator, so the
>> idea was to test that. It doesn't claim to be fast, just to be truly random 
>
> Precisely. However, speed of the crypto engine should be directly
> proportional to a peak speed of the RNG,

That statement makes no sense to me.  Why would the RNG be relevant
after the session keys are established?

>                                          so I thought that it's
> slow speed might confirm that the engine is being used, and is
> simply slow.

I don't really care how fast the crypto engine is on my Via system.  I
just care that it offloads the ALU.  I haven't gotten around to
proving whether (and by how much) it does so.

> Also, we didn't really test where are those random bits coming from :P
> Is the TRNG used by default, or some tinkering's in order to make it work?
>
> BTW... `ubench`? :)

Not impressive.