Poll: Do you trust VM RNGs? 5 points by AretNCarlsen 15y ago ↗ HN When running a server instance on Amazon/Rackspace/etc, where your server relies on /dev/random (e.g. for SSL and other cryptography),
[–] AretNCarlsen 15y 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.Poll prompted by: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596822
[–] tptacek 15y ago ↗ I flagged this, because what limited discussion there is about virtualized crypto is on this thread:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596822... and the poll does nothing but fracture the discussion.(Also: "entropy testers"?) [–] AretNCarlsen 15y ago ↗ Entropy testers: Robert Brown's dieharder: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/dieharder.phpNIST Statistical Test Suite: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/rng/index.htmlFourmilab's ENT: http://www.fourmilab.ch/random/ [–] tptacek 15y ago ↗ Responded on the real thread.
[–] AretNCarlsen 15y ago ↗ Entropy testers: Robert Brown's dieharder: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/dieharder.phpNIST Statistical Test Suite: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/rng/index.htmlFourmilab's ENT: http://www.fourmilab.ch/random/ [–] tptacek 15y ago ↗ Responded on the real thread.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 18.6 ms ] threadPoll prompted by: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596822
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596822
... and the poll does nothing but fracture the discussion.
(Also: "entropy testers"?)
NIST Statistical Test Suite: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/rng/index.html
Fourmilab's ENT: http://www.fourmilab.ch/random/