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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:35:59 +0200
From: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@...e.com>
To: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@...hat.com>,
"Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@...el.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Randomness on confidential computing platforms
On 26.01.24 г. 17:57 ч., Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> If the CPU performance counters could report RDRAND exhaustion directly,
> then the host admin could trust that information and monitor it, but the
> host shouldn't rely on the (hostile) guest software to tell it about
I guess it really depends on the POV - from the POV of an encrypted
guest the VMM is hostile so we ideally don't like to divulge more
information than is absolutely necessary.
OTOH, from the POV of the VMM we could say that the guest could be
running anything and so a facility like that could cause some confusion
on the VMM site.
I think it would be very hard to reconcile the 2 views.
> exhaustion.
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