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> instead, what everyone should be encouraging is to seed /dev/urandom from /dev/random and then use /dev/urandom.

I have no problem with this whatsoever; it's probably overkill for most users, but it's failure-proof. What I object to is using /dev/random all the time under the misconception that it is somehow more secure.



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