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by stefan_ 2136 days ago
That's a nice theory. In reality, VMs have no innate source of randomness and call into their hypervisor for that sweet sweet entropy - just as they ask hypervisors to map hardware into their address space, which drivers then proceed to innately trust.

This improves the situation by an infinitesimally small amount.

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Is this true? I thought modern server CPUs had access to true randomness that didn't need hypervisor mediation. Or does the hypervisor have the ability to trap RDRAND?