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Bug#931644: Buster kernel entropy pool too low on VM boot

From "Michael J. Redd" <micredd@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#931644: Buster kernel entropy pool too low on VM boot
Date 2020-02-06 21:40 +0100
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Apologies for the late reply. I can certainly test on some of my VMs if
you're willing to provide packages.

Reading over Linus' explanation of deriving jitter from the CPU's cycle
counter, while I'm no cryptographer, I might have some concerns about
the quality of the entropy that will be generated by this patch on
hypervisors that virtualize the time stamp counter. In my environment,
I know I can instruct Xen to never virtualize the TSC (
https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/man/xen-tscmode.7.html), which
would probably benefit the patch, but AWS and other public cloud users
may not have that option.

-Michael

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Bug#931644: Buster kernel entropy pool too low on VM boot "Michael J. Redd" <micredd@gmail.com> - 2019-07-08 19:10 +0200
  Bug#931644: Buster kernel entropy pool too low on VM boot Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-07-08 20:10 +0200
    Bug#931644: Buster kernel entropy pool too low on VM boot "Michael J. Redd" <micredd@gmail.com> - 2019-07-11 15:50 +0200
      Bug#931644: Buster kernel entropy pool too low on VM boot Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2020-01-10 00:00 +0100
        Bug#931644: Buster kernel entropy pool too low on VM boot "Michael J. Redd" <micredd@gmail.com> - 2020-02-06 21:40 +0100
          Bug#931644: Buster kernel entropy pool too low on VM boot Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2020-02-06 21:50 +0100
            Bug#931644: Buster kernel entropy pool too low on VM boot "Michael J. Redd" <micredd@gmail.com> - 2020-02-08 17:40 +0100
              Bug#931644: Buster kernel entropy pool too low on VM boot Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2020-02-08 19:40 +0100

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