From: Sarah Newman <srn@prgmr.com>
To: Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: PV random device
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 21:12:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56134A3F.3090809@prgmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151006033521.GF4243@bitfolk.com>
On 10/05/2015 08:35 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> So, I've been keeping (PV) domUs topped up with entropy by giving
> them access to hardware RNGs (initially Entropy Keys, but since the
> company making them failed I've switched to OneRNGs).
This is not a satisfactory solution for us because even if we were willing to do USB passthrough, the number of hardware devices needed would be
expensive and difficult to manage. A TPM and presumably VTPM can provide entropy
http://www.berthon.eu/2015/using-tpm-as-a-source-of-randomness-entropy/ but again it would be difficult for us to implement globally in the
conceivable future as we don't have TPM modules in all of our servers. The VTPM might work for you though.
I guess another solution might be to have a VTPM backend in the dom0 that only provides entropy and not any of the other functionality, but I don't
know enough about TPMs to know if that would be practical.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-06 4:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-06 1:33 PV random device Sarah Newman
2015-10-06 3:35 ` Andy Smith
2015-10-06 4:12 ` Sarah Newman [this message]
2015-10-06 4:29 ` Andy Smith
2015-10-06 4:34 ` Sarah Newman
2015-10-06 4:50 ` Steven Haigh
2015-10-06 5:18 ` Andy Smith
2015-10-06 7:40 ` Sarah Newman
2015-10-06 9:15 ` Ian Campbell
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