Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add support for hwrng found on some powernv systems
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2013-10-03 07:23:47
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On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 08:43 +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
Why it can be a bad idea? User can drain hwrng continuously making other users of it much slower, or even worse, making them fall back to another much less reliable, source of entropy.
Not in a very significant way, we generate entropy at 1Mhz after all, which is pretty good. Cheers, Ben.