On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Toralf Förster <toralf.foers...@gmx.de> wrote: > I think, that the discussed hole is related to UML too (or at least was > related in the past). > IIRC when I booted a freshly created UML image for the first time - it > hang in the boot phase for a looong time for the creation of > public/private keys of an applciation (either apache2 or courier, but I > do not remember). > While this behaviour itself was good (the application still waited b/c > /dev/random blocked I was explained) - it indicated too less entropy > during boot of UML too, isn't it ?
Yep - entropy comes from hardware interrupts, and UML doesn't have enough such interrupts, as far as I remember; I think interrupts might be individually marked as usable to produce entropy. I remember that before I stopped development, a UML driver was introduced to allow UML to feed on the host's entropy by reading the host's /dev/random. Not sure about the current status of all this, though. -- Paolo Giarrusso - Ph.D. Student http://www.informatik.uni-marburg.de/~pgiarrusso/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
