On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 18:33 -0700, Sarah Newman wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> We would like to use something like virtio-rng
> http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Features-Done/VirtIORNG with PVM domUs and
> since the wiki page on virtio
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Virtio_On_Xen says the wiki page is out of da
On 10/05/2015 10:18 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> But again as I say, that article I posted earlier contains a bunch
> of smart crypto people saying that all of this is unnecessary. So
> should we be enabling it?
Even if only urandom is considered necessary, how is the initial seed for
urandom being g
Hi Steven
On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 03:50:10PM +1100, Steven Haigh wrote:
> On 2015-10-06 15:29, Andy Smith wrote:
> >- Your typical EntropyKey or OneRNG can generate quite a bit of
> > entropy. Maybe 32 kilobytes per second for ~$50 each.
>
> If you can get one... :)
Yeah, EntropyKeys aren't rea
On 2015-10-06 15:29, Andy Smith wrote:
- Your typical EntropyKey or OneRNG can generate quite a bit of
entropy. Maybe 32 kilobytes per second for ~$50 each.
If you can get one... :)
- You can access them over the network so no USB passthrough needed.
Care to give details on this? I've got
On 10/05/2015 09:29 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> I don't find it a problem as:
>
> - Your typical EntropyKey or OneRNG can generate quite a bit of
> entropy. Maybe 32 kilobytes per second for ~$50 each.
>
> - You can access them over the network so no USB passthrough needed.
Yes, I'm implementing
Hi Sarah,
On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 09:12:47PM -0700, Sarah Newman wrote:
> On 10/05/2015 08:35 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> > So, I've been keeping (PV) domUs topped up with entropy by giving
> > them access to hardware RNGs (initially Entropy Keys, but since the
> > company making them failed I've swit
On 10/05/2015 08:35 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> So, I've been keeping (PV) domUs topped up with entropy by giving
> them access to hardware RNGs (initially Entropy Keys, but since the
> company making them failed I've switched to OneRNGs).
This is not a satisfactory solution for us because even if we
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 06:33:49PM -0700, Sarah Newman wrote:
> We would like to use something like virtio-rng
> http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Features-Done/VirtIORNG with PVM domUs and since
> the wiki page on virtio
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Virtio_On_Xen says the wiki page is out of date,
Greetings,
We would like to use something like virtio-rng
http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Features-Done/VirtIORNG with PVM domUs and since
the wiki page on virtio
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Virtio_On_Xen says the wiki page is out of date, what
is the current status?
Would a native xen driver be lik
