Uniting the Linux random-number devices

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  • A bit later another commit [1] was merged that makes reads from /dev/urandom opportunistically initialize the RNG. In practice this has the same result as the reverted commit on non-obsolete architectures, which do have a cycle counter and thus jitter entropy.

    [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/48bff1053c172e6c7f3...

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