Entropy generation on Linux virtual machines
Date : May 07, 2014
This article shows that Linux regular number generators (such as /dev/random) do not work in an acceptable way when the Linux system is virtualized. To fix this issue, it proposes to use the “havaged” daemon which implements the HAVEGE pseudo-random number generator developed by IRISA.
Note: this article was written by "La Française des Jeux" and was presented during the Cert-IST member meeting, held on March 19th, 2014.
The article corpus is in a separate document, and is available in both English and French:
