On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 13:45 -0600, Michael Graff wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2011, at 3:01 AM, Torsten Segner wrote:
> > In RHEL there is a RPM package called unuran. 
> > It's a random number generator daemon using either a piece of hardware or 
> > /dev/urandom as source. Running this will provide enough entropy to create 
> > lots of keys.
> 
> I'd be rather wary of keys made from /dev/urandom but I am often times a 
> paranoid security freak.
> 
> For my VM environment, I bought a USB random source, and share it across the 
> VMs with a little daemon I wrote.  Of course, you could just map the RNG into 
> the VM you need too, and even move it around.
> 
> --Michael

I installed the 'haveged' package, www.irisa.fr/caps/projects/hipsor
Sort of reads 'entropy' from the CPU and feeds it into /dev/random
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