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16 lines
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# Random
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# Uses
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- games
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- cryptography
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# Unprdictability
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- Unsafe randoms can be predicted (shouldn't be used in cryptography)
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- Entropy gathering (some OS don't wait on boot to gether entropy, many routers hacked this way)
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- /dev/random is not more secure than /dev/urandom (used to be the case)
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