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bob
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Re: The Mac OS/X man page for random/urandom

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sje wrote:Well, I'm sure that there are serious crypto users on Macs, but they don' t use /dev/random; they use specialized hardware generators.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_r ... _generator

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... generators
When I think "serious crypto users" I think NSA, DOD and such. They _definitely_ don't use MACs to do their crypto stuff. :)