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		AretNCarlsen on May 29, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: /dev/random and virtual systems Hence the caveat: "and hope/trust that the entropy you observe is unique, not copied to any other instances". I suppose it would take a centralized web service to detect correlated unrandomness between servers. I am not personally willing to implement such a service right now.

tptacek on May 29, 2011 [–]

Even if entropy isn't shared, you can't really test a CSPRNG by feeding it through "ent".

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