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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] virtio: rng: add derating factor for use by hwrng core
On 08/11/2014 10:27 PM, Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Mon) 11 Aug 2014 [15:11:03], H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 08/11/2014 11:49 AM, Amit Shah wrote:
>>> The khwrngd thread is started when a hwrng device of sufficient
>>> quality is registered. The virtio-rng device is backed by the
>>> hypervisor, and we trust the hypervisor to provide real entropy. A
>>> malicious hypervisor is a scenario that's ruled out, so we are certain
>>> the quality of randomness we receive is perfectly trustworthy. Hence,
>>> we use 100% for the factor, indicating maximum confidence in the source.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
>>
>> It isn't "ruled out", it is just irrelevant: if the hypervisor is
>> malicious, the quality of your random number source is the least of your
>> problems.
>
> Yea; I meant ruled out in that sense. Should the commit msg be more
> verbose?
>

Yes, as it is written it is misleading.

-hpa




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