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Random numbers and virtual-machine forks

Random numbers and virtual-machine forks

Posted Mar 14, 2022 16:11 UTC (Mon) by Otus (subscriber, #67685)
In reply to: Random numbers and virtual-machine forks by Wol
Parent article: Random numbers and virtual-machine forks

Ah yes, it's combining two things. The CRNG reseed could be done differently. The application reseed must happen and requires new functionality.

I do wonder if the latter should be something more generic (not tied to vmid), since I can easily imagine other cases where you might want to tell everyone to reseed. For example, if you are using something like systemd-random-seed.service to feed entropy you trust more than the kernel's entropy collection during boot.

But anyway, that's just academical, clearly something like this is required. Thanks.


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