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by dev_dull 2429 days ago
They should do exactly what’s been done in Mac/bsd variants and make both of them the same CSPRNG via fortuna[1]. Then the only thing the system ever need to worry about is getting a few bytes of random data seeded and you can read securely all day long.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna_(PRNG)

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They already use the same CSPRNG algorithm; the only difference is the entropy accounting.

See 2nd point here: https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/