Subject: Re: Entropy Source
To: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-xen
Date: 12/02/2005 14:46:50
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:21:15PM -0700, John R. Shannon wrote:
> What device should I use for an entropy source?
Did you build a kernel without pseudo-device random? Don't do that. We
should probably make it impossible to do that. It breaks many much less
obvious things.
We should find a way to have domain 0 hand the client domains a chunk of
entropy at startup time.
Thor