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		viraptor on May 4, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby Bug: SecureRandom should try /dev/urandom fir... It's configurable. You can even forward host's /dev/urandom as guest's /dev/random.

MichaelRenor on May 4, 2016 [–]

Actually it's not supported with virtio-rng. Here[0] is a proposed patch to add support.

[0] http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-March/msg010...

viraptor on May 4, 2016 | [–]

I knew you can change the source (it accepts egd after all), but didn't know they actually prevent you from choosing urandom. This is sad :(

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