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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by riquito on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:20PM (#22679145)
/dev/random vs /dev/urandom, you could argue that a new seed via /dev/random is somewhat better, but you wouldn't block everything constantly to get new entropy
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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by saagarjha on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:21PM (#22679159)
/dev/urandom is better than /dev/random in almost every case, so much so that on macOS they are identical.
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