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by Tomte·12y ago·view on hn ↗
Suffice it to say that the author is mistaken when he claims that "The former is pretty much raw entropy, while the latter is the output of a CSPRNG function"

/dev/random ist not "pretty much raw entropy", it is the exact same output of the kernel's CSPRNG as /dev/urandom is giving out.

See http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/#structure