5 ms·Why does the blog post also suggest /dev/random? I thought urandom should only be used for crypto.by plasma 13y agoWhy does the blog post also suggest /dev/random? I thought urandom should only be used for crypto.nwh 13y agoOther way around.aa0 13y agoRandom blocks when waiting for entropy. Urandom is "unblocking random" and will return strictly predictable results when the pool becomes drained enough.