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Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace

Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace

Posted Mar 30, 2012 14:29 UTC (Fri) by fuhchee (subscriber, #40059)
In reply to: Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace by alankila
Parent article: Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace

"virtual systems could just have a random driver to help them along."

See virtio-rng.


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Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace

Posted Mar 30, 2012 16:19 UTC (Fri) by alankila (subscriber, #47141) [Link]

Thanks for the pointer. I just checked and saw that my kvm-based virtual machines already had about the same amount of random entropy gathered as the host (140 bytes/s or so). So presumably this rate is normal or the problem is already solved.

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