Cloud PRNG Seed¶

Pollinate is a client application that retrieves entropy from one or more Pollen servers and seeds the local Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG).

Pollinate is essential for systems in cloud environments, ensuring secure and adequate PRNG seeding. Starting with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu cloud images include the Pollinate client, which seeds the PRNG with input from Ubuntu’s entropy service during the first boot.