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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:04:39 -0600
From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
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To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
CC: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
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Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 3/9] UML - "Hardware" random number generator
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Jeff Dike wrote:
> rob@landley.net said:
> 
>>I'm just thinking about those UML hosting farms, with several UML
>>instances  per machine, on machines which haven't got a keyboard
>>attached constantly  feeding entropy into the pool.

That's when you set the network links to feed entropy.  It may not be 
very good entropy, but it's probably better than nothing (especially in 
a UML virtual-system instance, where the real NIC is handling traffic 
for all hosted systems).

Chris
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