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Re: privileged entropy sources in QEMU/KVM guests
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: privileged entropy sources in QEMU/KVM guests |
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Thu, 7 Nov 2019 13:47:54 +0100 |
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On 07/11/19 12:52, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
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> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bb5530e4082446aac3a3d69780cd4dbfa4520013
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> Is it practical to provide a jitter entropy source for EDK2
> too ?
The hard part is not collecting jitter (though the firmware might be too
deterministic for that), but rather turning it into a random number seed
(mixing data from various sources, crediting entropy, etc.).
Paolo
- Re: privileged entropy sources in QEMU/KVM guests, (continued)
Re: privileged entropy sources in QEMU/KVM guests, Laszlo Ersek, 2019/11/07
Re: privileged entropy sources in QEMU/KVM guests, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2019/11/07
- Re: privileged entropy sources in QEMU/KVM guests,
Paolo Bonzini <=