On 08/11/2014 10:27 PM, Amit Shah wrote: > On (Mon) 11 Aug 2014 [15:11:03], H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 08/11/2014 11:49 AM, Amit Shah 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 ruled out, so 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 <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> It isn't "ruled out", it is just irrelevant: if the hypervisor is >> malicious, the quality of your random number source is the least of your >> problems. > > Yea; I meant ruled out in that sense. Should the commit msg be more > verbose? > Yes, as it is written it is misleading. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
