Linux 5.17 Random Number Generator Seeing Speed-Ups, Switching From SHA1 To BLAKE2s

Ahead of the Linux 5.17 merge window officially opening next week, random (RNG) subsystem maintainer Jason Donenfeld has submitted an exciting batch of updates for this next kernel cycle…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 5.17 Random Number Generator Seeing Speed-Ups, Switching From SHA1 To BLAKE2s