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by ta0o0o0 3864 days ago
No, I mean that the fact that /dev/urandom "reseeds" in mid stream means it is not strictly speaking pseudo-random, since it is not completely deterministic. Maybe I'm wrong, but the comment I was replying to was arguing that /dev/urandom was the only CSPRNG, and things like stream cipher algorithms are not.