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Re:Ruby Bug: SecureRandom should try /dev/urandom first by tptacek on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:24AM (#11628996)
Exactly what, do you imagine, Linux could do to make urandom less secure? I'm sorry, but the word for that concern is "nonsensical". Linus Torvalds has world-shattering conniption fits when developers make changes that hurt performance. Can you imagine breaking every one of the many security applications --- for instance, every Go program ever written --- that depend on urandom?

No, that is not a legitimate concern.

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