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tatersolid on Jan 17, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool

Why not just use getrandom() or CryptGenRandom() instead and simplify everything avoiding all those classes of bugs?

A user space CSPRNG is just a foot-gun waiting to go off.

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