[onerng talk] Distributing entropy between machines

[David Eyers]

On 24/06/2014, at 4:44 pm, Jim Cheetham <jim at gonzul.net> wrote:
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> Depending on how much trust there is in your system, a VM host with a healthy /dev/random can probably talk over a dedicated network to the VM guests, there are some examples out there just using netcat; but they don't scale. Perhaps some simple solution with ZeroMQ in a PUSH-PULL mode might be interesting.
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Hi Jim and all, yep—a clear advantage of the decoupling offered by a solution using a message queue is that you could easily change the number of OneRNG's feeding into the queue dynamically. It would also be easy to integrate queue monitoring so as to assess what actions should be taken regarding the number of active OneRNG's connected.