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Subject: Re: Problem with random.c and PPC
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Marco Colombo  wrote:
>I'd say that /dev/urandom interface is somewhat broken: [...]

Also, the naming scheme is sub-optimal: it encourages
people to use /dev/random as the default, when /dev/random
should really be the exception rather than the norm.
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