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Re: /dev/random is hot garbage



gdt%lexort.com@localhost (Greg Troxel) writes:

>Another approach, harder, is to create a xenrnd(4) pseudodevice and
>hypervisor call that gets bits from the host's /dev/random and injects
>them as if from a hardware rng.

There is a virtio-rng, implementing that interface would be compatible
with other guests.

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