On Apr 4, 9:49, Taylor R Campbell wrote: } } What NetBSD-current is telling you on your Xen system, on a CPU } predating RDRAND/RDSEED, is the unfortunate truth that there is no } reliable source of entropy available in your system -- annoying, yes, } but when you talk about `matters so important as system security and } integrity' you might prefer to hear about this rather than have it } swept under the rug.
I understand the need for good random sources, and won't argue it. My question is, how can we tell what random sources a system actually has, i.e. is there some flag that cpuctl identify shows when a system has RDRAND/RDSEED? Are there other sources that can be positively identified as providing randomness? }-- End of excerpt from Taylor R Campbell