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From: Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>
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On 2014-04-19, Bill Cunningham <nospam@nspam.invalid> wrote:
> crankypuss wrote:
>
>> There exist pseudo-devices 'zero', 'random', and 'urandom':
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_file#Pseudo-devices
>
>     What's the difference in urandom and random devices? 

Urandom us much faster, but less random.

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