Re: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM question...

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Mon Apr 06 2009 - 14:50:11 EST


Stephen Hemminger wrote:
The real problem one is xen-netfront. Because 1) it is least random,
the attacker might be another VM 2) the VM is most in need of random
samples because it doesn't have real hardware.

Agreed.

I'm surprised Xen doesn't use virtio-rng. I guess it needs a special Xen paravirt driver for randomness.

Jeff


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