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Bug#325369: kdebase: kdm should NOT use /dev/urandom -- doing so deliberately weakens the security of the system



* Branden Robinson:

> I strenuously disagree with the upstream decision taken to point kdm
> at /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random for entropy.

On Linux, there is not much difference between /dev/urandom and
/dev/random, except that reading from /dev/urandom usually doesn't
block.



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