On Fri, 2018-07-20 at 13:36 -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Ben: explicitely CCing you due to the question below. > > Thiago Maciera, the developer in charge of QHash, also works at Intel and > made > some points which you might find interesting. > > From https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-69555 > > If the machine is question is virtual: make sure the host exports a virtual > HWRNG for the guest to use. VMs will not collect enough entropy fast enough > otherwise. [...]
I don't think this is correct. The Linux RNG doesn't really trust entropy provided by HWRNGs. More background information: https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2018/05/msg00130.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2018/05/msg00176.html Ben. -- Ben Hutchings No political challenge can be met by shopping. - George Monbiot
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