>Adversaries can easily break your cryptosystem if >you don't have sufficient 
>entropy. It's that bad.

>What sources do you use? /dev/random and >/dev/urandom are the Linux
>channel for entropy. There are various sources >that can be pooled by the 
>kernel:


/dev/urandom does not generate entropy I think. It depends on /dev/random. The 
firmer just stretch the later entropy.

The problem is more acute with servers though unfortunately as most run on 
virtualized environment these day and since there is no console, they gave 
little entropy during start up.  

William



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