[Cialug] Get Random in VMware

[Scott Yates]

Or maybe from https://www.random.org/   ?

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Dave Weis <djweis at sjdjweis.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > --
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