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Author dstufft
Recipients alex, benjamin.peterson, christian.heimes, dstufft, giampaolo.rodola, janssen, josh.r, ncoghlan, neologix, tshepang
Date 2014-04-28.11:21:17
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Message-id <1398684077.46.0.486877556167.issue21305@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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"Depleting" /dev/urandom isn't actually a thing. /dev/urandom on all modern *nix OSs uses a fast PRNG which is secure as long as it has received enough bytes of initial entropy.
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2014-04-28 11:21:17dstufftsetrecipients: + dstufft, ncoghlan, janssen, giampaolo.rodola, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson, alex, neologix, tshepang, josh.r
2014-04-28 11:21:17dstufftsetmessageid: <1398684077.46.0.486877556167.issue21305@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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