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| author | Jack Lloyd <[email protected]> | 2016-11-18 15:08:56 -0500 |
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| committer | Jack Lloyd <[email protected]> | 2016-11-18 15:08:56 -0500 |
| commit | dc94557f0f72766dbfba5e129da25dd0111fa564 (patch) | |
| tree | f2bb54c05769d3218abf3ba29e8bc9909445e4bd /src/lib/rng | |
| parent | 2031d93f0c07e0f310cb1366a07a8350301f19b0 (diff) | |
Don't force HMAC_DRBG to be enabled
No need to strictly require it, and some applications may only want
system RNG or RDRAND.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/lib/rng')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/lib/rng/info.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/lib/rng/rng.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/lib/rng/info.txt b/src/lib/rng/info.txt index 655e35fd1..4c88ba382 100644 --- a/src/lib/rng/info.txt +++ b/src/lib/rng/info.txt @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ <requires> entropy -hmac_drbg </requires> diff --git a/src/lib/rng/rng.h b/src/lib/rng/rng.h index 879c1acb7..98ac4982f 100644 --- a/src/lib/rng/rng.h +++ b/src/lib/rng/rng.h @@ -204,6 +204,8 @@ class BOTAN_DLL Null_RNG final : public RandomNumberGenerator #if defined(BOTAN_TARGET_OS_HAS_THREADS) /** * Wraps access to a RNG in a mutex +* Note that most of the time it's much better to use a RNG per thread +* otherwise the RNG will act as an unnecessary contention point */ class BOTAN_DLL Serialized_RNG final : public RandomNumberGenerator { |