Poll: Do you trust VM RNGs?
When running a server instance on Amazon/Rackspace/etc, where your server relies on /dev/random (e.g. for SSL and other cryptography),
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596822
... and the poll does nothing but fracture the discussion.
(Also: "entropy testers"?)
Entropy testers:
Robert Brown's dieharder: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/dieharder.phpNIST Statistical Test Suite: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/rng/index.html
Fourmilab's ENT: http://www.fourmilab.ch/random/
Poll prompted by: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596822