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ploxiln on Oct 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Really Fixing Getrandom()

My understanding is that /dev/random "entropy depletion" is because of FIPS or other enterprise/government certification requirements. It does not make logical sense, it just has to be that way, because requirements, because security.

wbl on Oct 19, 2019 [–]

That's not the case. FIPS only recently covered random numbers and permits on time initialization.

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