Ian Molton wrote: > Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > I'm a bit puzzled. > > > > Why isn't virtio-rng getting entropy from /dev/random on the host? > > /dev/random may not be available.
Understood on a non-Linux host. > Besides, not all entropy comes from /dev/random. On a Linux host, why isn't rngd simply injecting it's entropy into /dev/random where it would be more convenient to access? (No need for socket reconnection code, for example). -- Jamie
