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Majority of web pages and blog posts I’ve read suggests to use /dev/urandom Even the man page was updated to state that this is what you want unless under spec
by Rafert 10y ago
Majority of web pages and blog posts I’ve read suggests to use /dev/urandom
Even the man page was updated to state that this is what you want unless under specific circumstances:
The /dev/random interface is considered a legacy interface, and
/dev/urandom is preferred and sufficient in all use cases, with the
exception of applications which require randomness during early boot
time; for these applications, getrandom(2) must be used instead,
because it will block until the entropy pool is initialized.