[Cryptography] cheap sources of entropy

James A. Donald Jamesd at echeque.com
Sun Feb 2 07:12:01 EST 2014


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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