That is what I meant by "dilute", yes. Not a perfect metaphor, I guess. In point of fact, only /dev/random would be affected by that. /dev/urandom does not stal

That is what I meant by "dilute", yes. Not a perfect metaphor, I guess. In point of fact, only /dev/random would be affected by that. /dev/urandom does not stall when it runs out of entropy; it just reuses the entropy in the pool and hopes for the best.