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    SubjectRe: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?
    > No matter what you consider as being better, changing a 12 years old and 
    > widely used userspace interface like /dev/urandom is simply not an
    > option.

    Fixing it to be more efficient in its use of entropy and also fixing the
    fact its not actually a good random number source would be worth looking
    at however.


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