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by pclmulqdq 778 days ago
This is true. The Intel HWRNG has actually been thought to be suspect in this regard in the past, although I don't think there's actual data about that.

Urandom also takes entropy from things like mouse movements, inter-onset intervals of key presses, and (on servers) hard drive seek times, so it actually does take in some of its own entropy in addition to that provided by the CPU.