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by nullc 3773 days ago
In the immortal words of Timecube: "You have been educated stupid".

Fortunately, salvation is readily at hand: http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/

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I think entropy, in however you measure it, does influence something like a UUID generator differently than the cryptographic algorithms. What you are trying to achieve, or more importantly the condition you are trying to avoid, is different.