From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 3/9] UML - "Hardware" random number generator
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:04:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4231EBC7.9050901@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503111845.j2BIjkJp003341@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>
Jeff Dike wrote:
> rob@landley.net said:
>
>>I'm just thinking about those UML hosting farms, with several UML
>>instances per machine, on machines which haven't got a keyboard
>>attached constantly feeding entropy into the pool.
That's when you set the network links to feed entropy. It may not be
very good entropy, but it's probably better than nothing (especially in
a UML virtual-system instance, where the real NIC is handling traffic
for all hosted systems).
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-11 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-10 2:15 [PATCH 3/9] UML - "Hardware" random number generator Jeff Dike
2005-03-10 18:41 ` [uml-devel] " Rob Landley
2005-03-11 18:45 ` Jeff Dike
2005-03-11 19:04 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2005-03-11 18:54 ` Blaisorblade
2005-03-11 20:23 ` Bill Davidsen
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