Article 5TGPE Linux 5.17 To Replace SHA1 With BLAKE2s For Faster & More Secure "Random"

Linux 5.17 To Replace SHA1 With BLAKE2s For Faster & More Secure "Random"

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Queued today within the Linux's random.git repository for the /dev/random and /dev/urandom code is support for using BLAKE2s rather than SHA1 when hashing the entropy pool. This in turn is a big performance speed-up in addition to being more secure...
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