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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add support for hwrng found on
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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 17:22:59 +1000
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On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 08:43 +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> Why it can be a bad idea? User can drain hwrng continuously making other
> users of it much slower, or even worse, making them fall back to another
> much less reliable, source of entropy.

Not in a very significant way, we generate entropy at 1Mhz after all, which
is pretty good.

Cheers,
Ben.