Subject: Re: Entropy Source
To: None <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
List: port-xen
Date: 12/02/2005 12:57:06
I'm using XENU, which has it:
pseudo-device rnd
as does XEN0.
Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> 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
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