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.