Proposed F19 Feature: Virtio RNG

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Sat Feb 2 01:19:30 UTC 2013


On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> other than providing other sources of entropy, and long-term this is
> going to be fixed once everyone's moved to Ivy Bridge and has an
> unprivileged instruction to hand out entropy.

uhm I know intel really wants us to use it directly and trust them, but
we're going to run it through the kernel right? And just expose it via
/dev/random to userland yes?

Paul


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