On Monday, 6 March 2017 at 10:12:09 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Excuse me if I'm asking a trivial question. Why not just seed it from /dev/urandom? (or equivalent on non-Linux platforms. I know at least Windows has an equivalent).Shachar
One reason is that /dev/urandom isn't always available, e.g., in a chroot. Sure, these are corner cases, but it's annoying when stuff like this doesn't "just work".
