[bitfolk] Entropy and virtual machines

Hello, If you're on IRC, or follow me/bitfolk on twitter or on Facebook you're probably bored to tears hearing about this, but just in case there's some of you who aren't.. I've been investigating the issue of lack of entropy in virtual machines recently, and have gone into it in some detail in the following two blog postings: http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2010/06/06/adventures-in-entropy-part-1/ http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2010/06/07/adventures-in-entropy-part-2/ I now have a solution for serving high-quality entropy to BitFolk virtual machines, so if you feel you don't have as much entropy as you need then it would be great if you would try out using my (free) entropy service. You will need to install ekeyd-egd-linux or some other solution which can use the egd protocol from a TCP socket and feed it into your kernel. The entropy service is at 212.13.194.102 port 8888. No warranties or guarantees as to the quality of the entropy are made, use at your own risk, your causality may be at risk if you misuse this entropy or any other pseudo-random algorithm secured upon it, ... Let me know how you get on or if you have any problems. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Of course not. Everyone knows you can't have your kayak and heat it. -- James Fidell