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		cyphar on May 19, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Academics Make Theoretical Breakthrough in Random ... What do you mean by "use up the nice entropy"? You can use /dev/urandom for cryptographic applications (in fact _you should_). Here's a nice article about it: http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/

Bromskloss on May 21, 2016 [–]

I shall ready your link in full at a later time. For now, is there any problem with using /dev/random other than that it is blocking?

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