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jcromartie on Sept 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: SingleHop Are Cheats

Interesting. I don't see /dev/random blocking on Mac OS X (13" MacBook Pro). I wonder what the source is?

lilyball on Sept 16, 2011 [–]

On OS X, /dev/random and /dev/urandom are the same thing (both acting like the traditional /dev/urandom).

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