When I posted a note at identi.ca, jwilkins kindly informed me the article by Dustin Kirkland: Improving Random Seeds in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Cloud Instances

I am pleased to know there are other people who care.

While I think that the viewpoint of needs for entropy is same …

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Now, we are running an experimental random pool network.

Here, I describe the current shape of the network, and possible enhancement to the network.

The structure is like this:

 <HWRNG>        (0)
[supplier] ---> [root]
       ^   (1)  ^
       |       /
    (3)|      / (2)
       |     /
       V    /
     [demander]

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While I have been developing NeuG, I realize that I can't answer to the simple question: "How much entropy is needed (per day)?"

Only I know that when creating GnuPG's key(s), it takes too long with no device (being asked to type), but it's soon with NeuG standalone device …

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I started to develop random pool network. It's name is Kun (Unicode # is 9BE4), the legendary fish.

We moved our server to France, and it's now VPS instance.

I don't have enough experience using VPS instance, and my first concern is its entropy source. Kun was introduced because of this …

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