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Comment by Afforess

You missed the 3rd reason for this. Calls to /dev/urandom can not block, so it a script or program requests random bytes before entropy has been set up, it can get back bad random bytes. The new system call getrandoms does block, so early scripts will not get bad entropy data.
parent Afforess 12 years ago

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