Re: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM question...

Jeff Garzik
2009-04-06T18:50:11Z

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The real problem one is xen-netfront. Because 1) it is least random,
> the attacker might be another VM 2) the VM is most in need of random
> samples because it doesn't have real hardware.

Agreed.

I'm surprised Xen doesn't use virtio-rng. I guess it needs a special
Xen paravirt driver for randomness.

Jeff