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Uniting the Linux random-number devices
I meant /dev/urandom, sorry.
Do you mean it is in reverse, in sense what getrandom() would be using ?
SAI_Peregrinus
on Feb 17, 2022
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Still no changes. /dev/urandom will block until first seeded at boot. By the time you can run `dd`, it's seeded, because the system needs to have booted for that.
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Do you mean it is in reverse, in sense what getrandom() would be using ?