matbess

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   by matbess 8y ago

   Nice! Thanks
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   by matbess 8y ago

   I suspected that “politics” was going to end up being the answer to my question. Simply because this seems to be a very contentious issue, even if it doesn’t need to be. Edit: Thanks for the link!
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   by matbess 8y ago

   This article naturally leads to a question that I didn’t see addressed, perhaps you can answer it here: If it’s unnecessary to ever prefer /dev/random to urandom, then why does /dev/random’s current blocking implementati
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   by matbess 8y ago

   Well written post, I enjoyed it, it makes sense. The part tearing into the man page was especially excellent! Following your point a little further.. the thought of updating the man pages with warnings like the following made me laugh: “AES