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[ale] what's the difference between



/dev/random and /dev/urandom?

/dev/random is very slow and on a newly installed machine `cat /dev/random`
does little. Same machine `cat /dev/urandom` fills the screen quickly.

Is there a way to "add entropy" to get /dev/random to fill quicker?

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James P. Kinney III
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