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Re:Fixing Getrandom() by denton-scratch on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @08:43AM (#21135737)
VirtIO-RNG has not been officially accepted into Xen (it seems to be easier to incorporate into a PV DOMU).

If you have RDRAND hardware, you could (I suppose) pipe it's output from DOM0 into an encrypted root terminal session on DOMU, and feed that into the pool.

I personally don't want to rely on RDRAND. Unlike a tampered ADD instruction, a tampered RDRAND instruction would appear to be undetectable, even in principle. I wish Intel had given me the raw bits from their DRBG, instead of providing only the whitened stream. Or hell, give me both - but not just an opaque stream.

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