Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 16 May 2008 13:25:09 -0700 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support | |
Johannes Berg wrote:
>> +
>> +/* Our random number generator device reads from /dev/urandom into the Guest's
>> + * input buffers. The usual case is that the Guest doesn't want random numbers
>> + * and so has no buffers although /dev/urandom is still readable, whereas
>> + * console is the reverse.
>
> Is it really a good idea to use the hosts /dev/urandom to fill the
> guests /dev/random?
Only if you have an entropy estimate to go with it. It's still dubious,
though: the guests own pool will do its own mixing, so you might as well
pull from /dev/random in the host as being a genuine entropy source and
only add what entropy is available.
-hpa
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