It's not the prevailing sentiment "on HN". It's the prevailing sentiment among virtually all experts everywhere. I can make a list of those experts, but I'll leave it to someone else, so as not to bogart an lay-up high-quality upvote magnet comment.
The reason this is a problem is simply that the Linux maintainer is obstinately wrong. Theodore Ts'o was on HN a year or so ago, and in defending the current design (and man pages), made some incoherent arguments, such as that urandom might be OK for nonces, but not key generation (a head-scratcher for anyone familiar with cryptography engineering).
The reason this is a problem is simply that the Linux maintainer is obstinately wrong. Theodore Ts'o was on HN a year or so ago, and in defending the current design (and man pages), made some incoherent arguments, such as that urandom might be OK for nonces, but not key generation (a head-scratcher for anyone familiar with cryptography engineering).