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From Andres Freund
Subject Re: [PATCH] using arc4random for strong randomness matters.
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In response to Re: [PATCH] using arc4random for strong randomness matters.  (ilmari@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker))
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On November 22, 2017 8:51:07 AM PST, ilmari@ilmari.org wrote:
>If what is wanted is something more like /dev/urandom, one can call
>getentropy(2) (or on Linux, getrandom(2)) directly, which avoids having
>to open the device file each time.

What does that buy us for our usages?

Andres
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