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So there are many areas where pseudorandom numbers are actually more desirable than truly random ones.
!!! Hybrids
-In [Unix] systems, there's commonly a __/dev/random__ device to access a pseudorandom number generator. This generator however includes a twist that lets it generate higher quality random numbers than otherwise expected: its seed is periodically perturbed using using low-level timing information from the network, mouse, keyboard, and possibly other entropy sources, which only the [Kernel] has proper access to. It is generally considered a sufficiently good generator by all
for random numbers to be used in cryptographic algorithms
.
+In [Unix] systems, there's commonly a __/dev/random__ device to access a pseudorandom number generator. This generator however includes a twist that lets it generate higher quality random numbers than otherwise expected: its seed is periodically perturbed using using low-level timing information from the network, mouse, keyboard, and possibly other entropy sources, which only the [Kernel] has proper access to. It is generally considered a sufficiently good generator for everything except the
random numbers to be used in cryptographic suituations PublicKey generation
.
