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		alaaibrahim on July 24, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A call to PHP's mt_rand generates only odd numbers You do understand that urandom does not block waiting for entropy, I think you are confusing /dev/random and /dev/urandom. `$ man urandom`

rurban on July 26, 2015 [–]

Yes, I said "drain", not "block". /dev/random needs to wait, /dev/urandom just goes on creating worse numbers.

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