Random numbers from CPU execution time jitter
Random numbers from CPU execution time jitter
Posted May 2, 2015 7:29 UTC (Sat) by vstinner (subscriber, #42675)In reply to: Random numbers from CPU execution time jitter by flussence
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I already saw HAVEGE used in cloud virtual machines, because /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail was too low. Virtual machines get no keyboard stroke nor hardware interrupts. The problem is not the quality the of entropy, but the quantity of entropy. Without HAVEGE, SSH quickly hangs at the connection after a few tries...
A better fix is to configure virtio-rng for the virtual machine.
