Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support

[Herbert Xu]

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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