On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Torsten Valentin <valen...@4ss.de> wrote: > Hi! > > I have a couple of machines that run as VM and are lacking good entropy > data. I was wondering if there is a way of feeding the local random > number pool of a VM with entropy that was generated on a hardware random > number generator on a physical machine. > > I thought the hardware random number generator could constantly fill up > its own pool and whenever a VM needs entropy, it could connect to the > hardware, retrieve some randomness (fill up its own random number pool). > > I can set up the hardware random number generator but I don't know how > to fill OpenBSDs own entry data stack. > > It's not as easy as cat randomnumbersfile>/dev/random, is it? > > Thanks in advance!
You could try porting Entropy Broker to OpenBSD: http://www.vanheusden.com/entropybroker/ ciao, David
