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by MauranKilom 1961 days ago
> No mention of arc4random(3)? Seems like a solved problem in BSD land.

Do you mean the "real" arc4random algorithm, or ChaCha20 (which is what arc4random actually is on OpenBSD)?

See also:

> OpenBSD was sufficiently dissatisfied with it that they replaced it with a generator based on the ChaCha20 stream cipher.

https://www.pcg-random.org/other-rngs.html