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Re:/dev/random and virtual systems by justincormack on Sunday May 29, 2011 @01:56PM (#2597094)
Most servers have little source of decent entropy. Virtualisation makes this worse. Intel has dropped the motherboard RNG support in their chipsets. The suggestion in the thread to use a few cheap VIA boxes which have CPU RNG is one idea. There are cheap USB rngs too like http://www.entropykey.co.uk/.

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