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by icebraining 3256 days ago
Careful, shuf is not cryptographically safe by default! You need to pass --random-source=/dev/urandom to get a proper RNG.

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Rand...
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shpx 3256 days ago
Why does shuf implement its own random number generator? Why isn't /dev/urandom the default?

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-rando...

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icebraining 3256 days ago
shuf is not a crypto tool, and the GNU coreutils are written to be cross-platform, even where /dev/urandom doesn't exist, or is unreliable. That's my guess, at least.
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