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

David Thornton northdot9 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 15:23:42 UTC 2014


I do believe that I might be doing it wrong , but I emailed photos of the
whiteboard to this address ... and I don't see them.

Anyone know why that might be?

david

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:40 AM, staticsafe <me at staticsafe.ca> wrote:

> 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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