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Re: best way to create entropy?


From: Aaron Toponce <aaron.toponce () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:56:36 -0600

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:11:20PM +0100, Jasper Wallace wrote:
and with ekeyd-egd-linux you can distribute the entropy from an entropykey 
over the net - great for giving vm some randomness.

You would then be interested in http://hundun.ae7.st. Server I setup just a
week or so ago doing this very thing. However, if using a server's random
data, it's important you mix it into your /dev/random device, rather than
using the data directly. After all, how can you trust the admin, that he's
not keeping track of which client is receiving which data?

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