Re: Xen nuisance messages

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:09:11AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> [...]
> The right thing would seem to be to run a good crypto PRNG in either xen
> proper or the dom0, and to be able to pull bits from that to seed a
> crypto PRNG in the domU, using a new 'get random bits' hypercall.  Or,
> some bits from a hardware RNG could be diverted to domUs via this
> hypercall.  I am having negative spare time, but this seems doable in
> only a few days of hacking.

It's probably not much work, but it has to be done by someone with crypto
knowledge (i.e. not me :). It's also probably something we'd like to see
adopted by linux, so some discussion on xen-devel%xen.org@localhost about it 
may be
appropriate.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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