Torsten Valentin <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I have a couple of machines that run as VM and are lacking good entropy
>data. I was wondering if there is a way of feeding the local random
>number pool of a VM with entropy that was generated on a hardware
>random
>number generator on a physical machine.
>
>I thought the hardware random number generator could constantly fill up
>its own pool and whenever a VM needs entropy, it could connect to the
>hardware, retrieve some randomness (fill up its own random number
>pool).
>
>I can set up the hardware random number generator but I don't know how
>to fill OpenBSDs own entry data stack.
>
>It's not as easy as cat randomnumbersfile>/dev/random, is it?

Yes it is. :-)

/Alexander

>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>T.

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