Re: [uml-devel] /dev/random oddity

[Matt Z. <md...@de...>]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:12:27AM -0500, Stephen D. Williams wrote:

> This is a bit beyond our scope here, but one ideal source for randomness 
> is LavaRnd: http://www.lavarnd.org/

LavaRnd is software, and like any other software cannot be a source of
entropy.  From reading the web page, it seems to rely on hardware to import
entropy from an external source, which is less than ideal for use with UML.

If the host has a steady supply of randomness from any source, then UML
should be able to simply read from /dev/random on the host.

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 - mdz