Interestingly, there are some useful lessons to be learned here -
     and they're more about how to deal will technical issues well than
     they are about surveillance or digital snooping.

     So, at the risk of receiving a Royal Rant from Torvalds himself (me
     for writing this, and you for reading it), let me explain.

     Linux has a special file called /dev/random that doesn't exist as a
     real file.

     If you open it in a program, and read from it, you get a stream of
     pseudorandom numbers, generated right inside in the kernel.

     The idea of doing the work in the kernel is to end up with randomess
     of a very high quality.

   via [1]Rudest man in Linuxdom rants about randomness - "We actually
   know what we are doing. You don't." | Naked Security.

   Fascinating read. If you know more about how Linux does random numbers
   I'd love additional information.

   I'll leave opinions about Mr. Torvalds to the readers.
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   My original entry is here: [2]Rudest man in Linuxdom rants about
   randomness - "We actually know what we are doing. You don't." | Naked
   Security. It posted Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:30:45 +0000.
   Filed under: cryptography, InfoSec,

References

   1. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/09/11/rudest-man-in-linuxdom-rants-about-randomness-we-actually-know-what-we-are-doing-you-dont/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nakedsecurity+%28Naked+Security+-+Sophos%29
   2. https://www.prjorgensen.com/2013/09/12/rudest-man-in-linuxdom-rants-about-randomness-we-actually-know-what-we-are-doing-you-dont-naked-security/