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Does firecracker not support virtio rng? I won't comment on other uniqueness issues, but I would naively expect that you can fix random number generation by outsourcing it to the host. Or does Linux not pull from the provided rng on every use, resulting in a gap right after restore where your per-VM rng isn't unique? I suppose you could fix that by making the VM kernel aware that it was just restored? And now I see why it's not trivial:P


Nope. Official advice is "use RDRAND".


Which does avoid this problem as long as you are using it directly (not just as a seed).




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