On: How to Generate Secure Random Numbers in Various Programming Languages

[CiPHPerCoder]

In balance, Linux 4.8 will bring some much-needed improvements to Linux's urandom implementation.

But they still maintain a "meaningful" distinction between random and urandom, which is the most frustrating design smell.

[zeveb → CiPHPerCoder]

And to think, if Ted Ts'o had understood PRNGs at the time, we could have had a better PRNG a dozen years ago: https://lwn.net/Articles/103653/

It's so sad.