Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: virtio-rng and /dev/urandom

[Hubert Kario]

On Monday 18 April 2016 02:46:19 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Another thing that really needs to be addressed, but is a separate
> issue: invalidating and reseeding the entropy pool after a snapshot
> event.

definitely agreed

though just reseeding would be sufficient - the goal is to make the 
output unpredictable and unique between multiple machines starting from 
the same snapshot, feeding enough random data to make the entropy pool 
unique again is sufficient to achieve that
-- 
Regards,
Hubert Kario
Senior Quality Engineer, QE BaseOS Security team
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