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by Aaron1011 2896 days ago
I thought that the issue with /dev/urandom was that it wouldn't block when read shortly after startup (when the entropy pool wasn't yet initialized).
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mmebane 2896 days ago
That's part of it. Another concern was ensuring that fetching a random number couldn't fail due to file descriptor exhaustion. [1]

[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/605828/

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