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