Poll: Do you trust VM RNGs?

5 pointsby AretNCarlsenalmost 14 years ago

When running a server instance on Amazon/Rackspace/etc, where your server relies on /dev/random (e.g. for SSL and other cryptography),

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tptacekalmost 14 years ago

I flagged this, because what limited discussion there is about virtualized crypto is on this thread:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596822" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596822</a><p>... and the poll does nothing but fracture the discussion.<p>(Also: "entropy testers"?)

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AretNCarlsenalmost 14 years ago

I had to submit this three times before it would show all of the options properly. Think I lost one vote for (1). Sorry about that.<p>Poll prompted by: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596822" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596822</a>