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by bitwize 4065 days ago
Actually /dev/random is truly random and requires entropy inputs; once the current entropy pool is exhausted, reads from /dev/random block. /dev/urandom is similar but reuses the entropy pool to produce PR values until more entropy comes in, so it's good for games and such.
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As the comments above point out, this isn't correct.