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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