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bogus random entropy sources

bogus random entropy sources

Posted Oct 5, 2010 6:03 UTC (Tue) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312)
In reply to: bogus random entropy sources by shemminger
Parent article: Solid-state storage devices and the block layer

"For example, Xen drivers are purely virtual and therefore deterministic."

What does that matter, if they ultimately connect to underlying physical devices which are not?


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bogus random entropy sources

Posted Oct 5, 2010 6:42 UTC (Tue) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

_If_. They might not.

bogus random entropy sources

Posted Oct 6, 2010 17:01 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

I know that I have had problems with ssh hanging on new nodes on xen due lack of entropy. But I think this is no longer a problem.

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