Re: Virt RNG?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 16 May 2008, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Yes, I prepared one earlier.  I was a little surprised to see that hwrng 
> drivers don't contribute in any way to the entropy pool though, but now
> reading the thread I find out about rngd (not installed on my Ubuntu system, 
> but available at least).

It would be easy to implement rng-tools as a kernel driver, as long as
proper in-kernel interfaces exist for it to work in an event-driven way.
I don't see what we would win over rng-tools in userspace, however.

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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