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Re: [Cryptography] cheap sources of entropy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sun Feb 2 16:06:13 2014
X-Original-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 22:12:01 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <Jamesd@echeque.com>
To: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
In-Reply-To: <887284A4-62AE-48EA-9C2E-69E1B3032558@lrw.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Errors-To: cryptography-bounces+crypto.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@metzdowd.com
James A. Donald wrote:
>> If it switches a process in when data is available, rather than switching on a clock, turbulence is going to show up, even if that disk is on a network on the other side of the data center.
n 2014-02-02 21:40, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> You keep saying that as if you know it, while others say "not so" and cite evidence.
No they do not
The proposed "evidence" is that hypervisors "might" switch processes on
the basis of a clock, rather than the availability of data.
No one has presented evidence that hypervisors do this and it does not
seem a very efficient way of doing things.
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