nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes: > The argument is really simple. Programs that use /dev/urandom > generally expect to get numbers that are not only uniform, but numbers > which are actually *useful* for *cryptographic* purposes. Creating a > /dev/urandom that does something different is breaking that informal > interface. Sure, and we break informal interfaces all the time in the Hurd, as temporary measure.