[Ach] Recomendation on haveged in Bettercrypto chapter 3.3.3

Maciej Soltysiak maciej at soltysiak.com
Wed Apr 29 16:20:40 CEST 2015


Hi Philipp,

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Philipp Gühring <pg at futureware.at> wrote:

> What愀 your experience regarding the ressource waste of havege? How much
> does it slow things down?
>
Well, I've had it on 3 servers and have never seen it a problem really ,
load insignificant.
If there's no benefit, the resource is by definition wasted.

There is also djb saying hashing in more entropy can hurt. [3]

[3] http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html

Best regards,
Maciej
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