On 08/13/2014 12:09 PM, Rusty Russell 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 irrelevant -- such a setup > is bound to cause all sorts of badness, and a compromised hwrng is not > the biggest threat. > > Given this, 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 <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> > --- > Pretty small and contained patch; would be great if it is picked up for > 3.17. > > v2: re-word commit msg > > [Agreed, re-sending to Linus with SOB before jumping on plane]
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