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		Dylan16807 on March 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Myths about /dev/urandom Okay, you've convinced me, they definitely put in a somewhat weaker urandom. Also that function for getting random numbers with no zero bytes 'for key generation' terrifies me a bit.

binarycrusader on March 8, 2014 [–]

Yeah, Solaris has pretty strong crypto verifications thanks to a great security team :-)

I'm glad I could provide useful info.

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