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by jwilkins 3710 days ago
/dev/urandom while entropy available is low:

  $ rngtest -c 200000 -b 2000 < /dev/urandom  
  .....

  rngtest: bits received from input: 4000000032
  rngtest: FIPS 140-2 successes: 199848
  rngtest: FIPS 140-2 failures: 152
  rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Monobit: 24
  rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Poker: 15 
  rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Runs: 60
  rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Long run: 54
  rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Continuous run: 0
  rngtest: input channel speed: (min=3.782; avg=63.752; max=82.928)Mibits/s
  rngtest: FIPS tests speed: (min=4.559; avg=158.909; max=194.627)Mibits/s
  rngtest: Program run time: 83882495 microseconds
It gets much worse.