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mountbob

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    Comment #8058373

    1) If it was the same in OTHER PROFESSIONS then I'd be ok - but it's not. Professionals licensed to practice in their country cannot immigrate and practice here - they end up resor…

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    Comment #8051042

    > "might generate easily predicted cryptographic keys under certain extremely rare circumstances" no, he's not saying that - he's saying that there's no such thing as entropy deple…

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    Comment #8050752

    > Once urandom is initialized, the idea that it can ever "run out of entropy" is nonsensical; urandom is structurally the same as a stream cipher keystream generator, and we genera…