Bug 262604 - Feature request: reseed kernel RNG after VM snapshot/resume
Summary: Feature request: reseed kernel RNG after VM snapshot/resume
Status: New
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: kern (show other bugs)
Version: CURRENT
Hardware: Any Any
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Reported: 2022-03-16 22:55 UTC by Ed Maste
Modified: 2022-03-17 09:44 UTC (History)
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Description Ed Maste freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-03-16 22:55:58 UTC
This came as a report to secteam@, but should be tracked in the public bugzilla.

> Specifically, we've run FreeBSD inside VMware workstation 9.0.0, captured a
> full-memory snapshot (using the ‘snapshot' button in VMware), and resumed the
> guest VM multiple times from the same snapshot (using the ‘revert’ button in
> VMware).  We’ve observed that /dev/random produces repeated outputs each time
> the guest is resumed from the same snapshot.  In the worst case, we’ve observed
> repeated outputs for as long as 100 seconds after resumption.

Paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6956587

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