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Just to be clear, cryptographic hashes and other outputs of cryptographic primitives are designed to be uniform random. If you find a detectable bias from uniform on the outputs of /dev/urandom then you should consider the underlying primitive (the ChaCha20 stream cipher, in the case of modern Linux urandom) to be broken.



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