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Subject: [Discuss] Failing WD Disks
From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)
Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 18:43:53 -0400
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On Thu, 18 May 2023 15:13:27 -0700
Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> If my quick check is correct, /dev/random and /dev/urandom are still 
> different: they are now what they always were, but not so broken.

Again, read this, because your information is not wrong but not
entirely right either.

https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/

TL;DR: use /dev/urandom

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