From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] libxl: add libxl__random_bytes() which fills a buffer with random bytes
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:43:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A17B55.6050400@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1403090909.25575.8.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com>
On 18/06/14 13:28, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 16:04 +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
>> The random bytes are obtained from /dev/urandom and are suitable for
>> almost all uses (except for generating long-lived secure keys).
>>
>> Documentation suggests that /dev/urandom is widely available on Unix-like
>> systems (such FreeBSD and NetBSD).
>
> This seems likely to me. Roger, can you confirm?
Yes, I can confirm /dev/urandom exists on FreeBSD, I've already checked
when I saw the patch. It seems to exists on NetBSD also:
http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?urandom+4+NetBSD-current
But I don't have a system to test with and confirm.
Roger.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-18 11:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-12 15:04 [PATCHv5 0/8] tools: rework VM Generation ID David Vrabel
2014-06-12 15:04 ` [PATCH 1/8] libxc: allow xc_get/set_hvm_param() to get/set 64-bit values David Vrabel
2014-06-18 11:26 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-18 13:05 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-12 15:04 ` [PATCH 2/8] libxl: add libxl__random_bytes() which fills a buffer with random bytes David Vrabel
2014-06-18 11:28 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-18 11:43 ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]
2014-06-18 13:10 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-12 15:04 ` [PATCH 3/8] hvmloader: add helper functions to get/set HVM params David Vrabel
2014-06-12 15:04 ` [PATCH 4/8] hvm: add HVM_PARAM_VM_GENERATION_ID_ADDR David Vrabel
2014-06-12 15:04 ` [PATCH 5/8] libxc, libxl, hvmloader: strip out outdated VM generation ID implementation David Vrabel
2014-06-12 15:04 ` [PATCH 6/8] libxl: allow a generation ID to be specified at domain creation David Vrabel
2014-06-18 5:18 ` Hongyang Yang
2014-06-18 9:38 ` David Vrabel
2014-06-18 9:39 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-18 11:33 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-18 12:09 ` David Vrabel
2014-06-18 12:25 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-18 13:22 ` David Vrabel
2014-06-12 15:04 ` [PATCH 7/8] xl: generate a new random VM generation ID if requested David Vrabel
2014-06-18 11:37 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-12 15:04 ` [PATCH 8/8] docs: update docs for the ~/platform/generation-id key David Vrabel
2014-06-18 16:12 [PATCHv6 0/8] tools: rework VM Generation ID David Vrabel
2014-06-18 16:12 ` [PATCH 2/8] libxl: add libxl__random_bytes() which fills a buffer with random bytes David Vrabel
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