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I think you missed what he was saying. He phrased it a few different ways in the blog and the comments, the clearest probably being: "(/dev/urandom || gettimeofday()) is a very poor source of entropy".

He was complaining about a particular usage he was seeing in the wild, not random and urandom, as he explicitly says a few times.


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