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Re:SingleHop Are Cheats by ominous_prime on Friday September 16, 2011 @09:41AM (#3004394)
/dev/random uses environmental noise for entropy, and can be depleted rather quickly.

/dev/urandom supplements its entropy with a PRNG so that it never blocks..

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