Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] um: seed rng using host OS rng | From | Johannes Berg <> | Date | Wed, 13 Jul 2022 09:03:31 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2022-07-13 at 07:58 +0100, Anton Ivanov wrote: > > IIRC UML RNG device reads directly from host.
Yes, but that's a /dev/hwrng device, so you still need some userspace to feed entropy from that into /dev/random.
> If you are using UMLs own /dev/random you are effectively using the host > one.
> So unless I am mistaken, you need extra randomness only if you do not > have UMLs /dev/random compiled in.
No, neither of those is true.
johannes
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