On Wednesday, 25 July 2018 15:01:37 BST inkbottle wrote: [...] > Also, introducing Haveged could lead to sensitive application using > "questionable" entropy. > > <quote> > HAVEGE is a random number generator that exploits the modifications of the > internal CPU hardware states (caches, branch predictors, TLBs) as a source > of uncertainty. During an initialization phase, the hardware clock cycle > counter of the processor is used to gather part of this entropy: tens of > thousands of unpredictable bits can be gathered per operating system call > in average. > > https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/34523/is-it-appropriate-to-use-> > haveged-as-a-source-of-entropy-on-virtual-machines </quote> > > That seems sound to me... But some security issues that have been found > lately seem also so terribly remote.
But for completeness also review the haveged FAQ [1]. Andy. [1] http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/faq.html
