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Re: privileged entropy sources in QEMU/KVM guests


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: privileged entropy sources in QEMU/KVM guests
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 13:47:54 +0100
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On 07/11/19 12:52, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bb5530e4082446aac3a3d69780cd4dbfa4520013
> 
> Is it practical to provide a jitter entropy source for EDK2
> too ?

The hard part is not collecting jitter (though the firmware might be too
deterministic for that), but rather turning it into a random number seed
(mixing data from various sources, crediting entropy, etc.).

Paolo



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