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Re:Some AMD CPU's RDRAND might not return random data after ... by ris on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @05:48PM (#19853759)
> 128-bits of random data is sufficient to securely generate a stream of 100s of terabytes of random data.

What you are describing is /dev/urandom. Your argument is basically "urandom is good enough for anybody". If you want to use that, use it.

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Re:Some AMD CPU's RDRAND might not return random data after ... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @06:27PM (#19854019)
/dev/urandom is not always sufficiently seeded.

/dev/random makes sure that it's seeded, then pretends it can run out somehow.

getrandom() with default settings is the right behavior almost always, and it took ages to get implemented.

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