[GTALUG] Crypto Question: Where do you get your entropy

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On 11/12/2014 01:22, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> [Scott asked that we post our questions from tonight's meeting]
> 
> Where do you get your entropy?

On remove VMs (regardless of the the fact that you control the host node
or not), I like to use haveged to generate entropy. This is especially
helpful on Xen PV VMs where I've had issues with openssl blocking on
entropy.

http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/
http://www.irisa.fr/caps/projects/hipsor/

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