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Re: [MirageOS-devel] Update on entropy



> It would also be good to port the TCP/IP stack to using nocrypto at
> the same time, to give it the IP ID and TCP ISN random sources, and
> to have more than one consumer outside of the TLS stack.  This is a
> very localised patch -- it currently uses the Random module directly.

Just a quick note on that: Hannes and David pointed out that this means we'll 
depend on gmp for any unikernel using the TCP/IP stack. It's a big chunk of C 
code (which takes ages to compile on the cubiboard), so that would be nice to 
keep the ability to use the normal Random if wanted.

Thomas 
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