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		ascorbic on May 4, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby Bug: SecureRandom should try /dev/urandom fir... Nobody's claiming there's no difference between /dev/random and /dev/urandom. They're just saying you should always use /dev/urandom.

meshko on May 8, 2016 [–]

Not sure what up with all the downvotes. I'm just saying that Java defaults to /dev/random and Java is kind of a big and important and all that, so not sure why everyone is giving crap to poor little Ruby about this.

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