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mountbob
12y ago
1) If it was the same in OTHER PROFESSIONS then I'd be ok - but it's not. Professionals licensed to practice in their country cannot immigrate and practice here - they end up resorting to things like becoming cab drivers etc (not
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mountbob
12y ago
> "might generate easily predicted cryptographic keys under certain extremely rare circumstances" no, he's not saying that - he's saying that there's no such thing as entropy depletion - and so urandom is secure.
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mountbob
12y ago
> Once urandom is initialized, the idea that it can ever "run out of entropy" is nonsensical; urandom is structurally the same as a stream cipher keystream generator, and we generally don't fret about whether AES-CTR keyst