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Re:Random Numbers in Bash by rascul on Monday March 27, 2023 @12:07PM (#35328421)
If I recall correctly, /dev/urandom and /dev/random work the same now.
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Re:Random Numbers in Bash by dharmab on Monday March 27, 2023 @01:56PM (#35329965)
That change was reverted, and I do not know if they were re-unified since.

https://lwn.net/Articles/889452/

Pragmatically, they are equivalent for most scripting use cases.

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