[Cialug] Get Random in VMware

[Dave Weis]

Realistically how random do you need? There is an instruction that returns
a random number but I have no idea if it's exposed through vmware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand



On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anybody know of a better way of getting randomness in a VMware virtualized
> Red Hat / CentOS guest than /dev/random? /dev/random and /dev/urandom take
> *forever* to churn out random numbers. On the order of approximately a byte
> every 3 seconds.
>
> haveged maybe?
>
>
> http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/34523/is-it-appropriate-to-use-haveged-as-a-source-of-entropy-on-virtual-machines
>
> --
> Todd
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