[Cryptography] RAM memories as one source of entropy

Theodore Ts'o tytso at mit.edu
Sat Feb 15 13:56:21 EST 2014


On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:32:19AM +0300, ianG wrote:
> 
> ps; quick, someone, put a patent in for a VM on a chip

IBM Power servers may have already beaten you to this.  Indeed, with
the publically available interfaces, it is impossible to get access to
the raw CPU; the BIOS is always running as a hypervisor.

    	     	      	 		   - Ted


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