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Posts Tagged ‘RNG’

Putting Entropy in the Cloud

Posted November 23, 20092 Comments »

I was browsing through twitter mentions of @adrian_otto and found one posted by Ian Thompson mentioning an article about weak randomness in the cloud. It suggests that because there may be insufficient entropy sources on a Cloud Server or instance that it may make it easier to guess random number sequences because different cloud servers [...]

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Entropy, Linux, Random, RNG, Xen
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