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Old 10th February 2014
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About the differences between /dev/random and /dev/urandom for Linux, there is a good discussion on this man page:

random(4)

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If you are unsure about whether you should use /dev/random or /dev/urandom, then probably you want to use the latter.
Last edited by IdOp; 10th February 2014 at 08:43 PM. Reason: added (4)
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