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Wasn't there many cases where they tried to make /dev/urandom wait until entropy & it broke many distros on certain machines? What's different this time around?

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I believe that was fixed by the last-ditch Linus Jitter Dance.

Since I wanted to learn more about Linus Jitter Dance, here is the patch: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/50ee7529ec45

And here is discussion of the concept: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9512718

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