Re: [Xen-devel] entropy for VMs

2015-02-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 17:40 +, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Sun, 1 Feb 2015, Dave Scott wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Mirage now has nice features like TLS[1] and therefore needs a good source > > of randomness to generate session keys. Mirage VMs are PV, so we can’t use > > virtio-rng. We've cre

Re: [Xen-devel] entropy for VMs

2015-02-02 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Sun, 1 Feb 2015, Dave Scott wrote: > Hi, > > Mirage now has nice features like TLS[1] and therefore needs a good source of > randomness to generate session keys. Mirage VMs are PV, so we can’t use > virtio-rng. We've created a prototype entropy server which may be of interest > to other peop

[Xen-devel] entropy for VMs

2015-02-01 Thread Dave Scott
Hi, Mirage now has nice features like TLS[1] and therefore needs a good source of randomness to generate session keys. Mirage VMs are PV, so we can’t use virtio-rng. We've created a prototype entropy server which may be of interest to other people too: https://github.com/mirage/xentropyd This