Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 17 May 2008 14:43:07 +0800 | | From | Herbert Xu <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support |
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On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 04:28:03PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > But you did not address the DoS question: can we ignore it? Or are we trading > off a DoS in the host against a potential security weakness in the guest?
Why not do both? Use the host's urandom to make the guest at least unpredictable on start-up without increasing the guest's entropy, and use the host's random to actually increase the guest's entropy.
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