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Re:Ruby Bug: SecureRandom should try /dev/urandom first by krzyk on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @01:23AM (#11626386)
Well, manpage has always been the source of information, the only better one is kernel source. I think majority would choose it over what some random (an average user doesn't know experts from crypto field by their names) people wrote on a forum on the Web.
Re:Ruby Bug: SecureRandom should try /dev/urandom first by jhall1468 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:05AM (#11628010)
I'd hope the Ruby core team is slightly above average users, and even if not, they could easily verify the claims. They selected not to purely out of stubborness and an unwillingness to admit they were wrong.