GPG with GPUs

[Peter Lebbing]

On 18/06/12 10:49, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:31, rjh at sixdemonbag.org said:
> 
>> results can check for themselves.  Warning: if you ever write Python
>> code like this in the real world your programming team will beat you to
>> death.
> 
> To me this awk script is more readable, although most other will
> disagree:
> 
>   $ gpg2 --gen-random 0 262144 | time gpg2 --always-trust --batch -ea \
>     $(gpg2 --with-colons -k | awk -F: \
>     '$1=="pub" && $2~/[fmu]/ && $12~/[E]/ {print "-r "$5;if(++cnt>50){exit}}')\
>      >/dev/null
> 
> resulting in
> 
>   0.32user 0.03system 0:01.00elapsed 
> 
> On a slower machine but likely with another state of the entropy pool.

Just as a datapoint: I have a VIA Nano L2200 @ 1.6 GHz, which is a slow
processor (competition for the Intel Atom), but which has a hardware RNG hooked
up to /dev/random through rngd. I'm fairly sure that it's configured correctly
and that /dev/random will not starve.

It encrypts to the first 50 pubkeys in my ring as follows:

1.51user 0.14system 0:02.02elapsed 81%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 12992maxresident)k
0inputs+16outputs (0major+894minor)pagefaults 0swaps

It's a 64-bit Debian testing. I had to install the "time" package[1]. I also had
to remove the "$2~/[fmu]/" test as I have only 47 valid keys :).

System load was low when performing the test. Less than 10 percent CPU usage by
other processes.

Peter.

[1] The bash keyword "time" can only be at the start of a command line. It can't
be used in the middle of a pipe. It's a keyword, not a builtin.

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