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Recommendations for Randomness in the Operating System: How to Keep Evil Children Out of Your Pool and Other Random Facts
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs and Suman Jana
Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS)
May 18-20, 2015, Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland
Materials
Abstract
Common misconceptions about randomness underlie the design and implementation of randomness sources in popular operating systems. We debunk these fallacies with a survey of the "realities of randomness" and derive a number of new architectural principles for OS randomness subsystems.