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re: nothing contributing entropy in Xen domUs? or dom0!!!

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Subject: re: nothing contributing entropy in Xen domUs? or dom0!!!
From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:18:42 +1100

> In this particular example server it's in a Dell R510 with a pair of
> 6-core E5645 CPUs that "cpuid" shows the following for (in the dom0):

this is a westmere-ep CPU, which does not support rdseed
or rdrand.  rdrand appeared in ivybridge (2 generations
later, with sandybridge in the middle.)

References:
- Re: nothing contributing entropy in Xen domUs? or dom0!!!
  - From: Greg A. Woods

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