Does /dev/random in virtual guests provide good random data?

[Marcus Reid]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 02:46:30PM +0100, RW via freebsd-hackers wrote:
> FreeBSD uses Yarrow

As of recently, -CURRENT uses Fortuna by default, which is the successor
to Yarrow.  It was also devised by Bruce Schneier (with Neils Ferguson).

> , which was designed by Bruce Schneier, a professional cryptographer
> who created the Blowfish cipher, the AES candidate Twofish and PGP.

PGP was created by Phil Zimmermann, not Schneier.

Marcus

> Linux's /dev/random was designed by programmers; actually a lot of
> them, its greatest problem is that it's a mess of patches from
> amateurs.