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		scdlbx on June 22, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: USB True Random Number Generator If the application running on the server needs to generate a lot of random numbers, yes.

JoachimSchipper on June 23, 2010 [–]

Only if they need to be cryptographically secure - a PRNG, occasionally seeded with "real" entropy, is sufficient for almost all uses.

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