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		technion on Jan 6, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Myths about /dev/urandom (2014) For end users I would agree. However: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9569 I many technical discussions, the man page becomes the compelling argument.

asdfaoeu on Jan 6, 2017 [–]

That's a different argument. Their usage is correct and you should use a CSPRNG to generate your random data like, arc4random or the ones provided by OpenSSL.

technion on Jan 6, 2017 | [–]

No, you should not use a userspace CSPRNG. That's the whole point.

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