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		cperciva on Sept 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Myths about /dev/urandom Another point is that it still works if you're inside a chroot / jail / container / with no devices visible.

rakoo on Sept 1, 2015 [–]

In a way, that's the point of chroot/jail/container: isolate the host filesystem from the guest, so the script that creates it should take /dev into account if it is needed

Dylan16807 on Sept 1, 2015 | [–]

The point is to isolate access to the host, and single secure random numbers have nothing to do with the host.

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