RFC: initialize /dev/urandom, is it necessary? Can we do it in a better way?

[Roberto A. Foglietta]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 at 15:04, Roberto A. Foglietta
<roberto.foglietta at gmail.com> wrote:
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> ~> https://github.com/robang74/working-in-progress/blob/main/random.txt

Sure it was broken, the generation of the random numbers via shell...
...and when something is SO broken, it is impossible to fix, right?

Fixed.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robang74/working-in-progress/0ccb52ddff85c8a012fef0f77dc732850807d3ea/random.txt#:~:text=Evolution%20of%20the-,statistics,-from%2062K%20to

Entropy = 7.999398 bits per byte.
Chi square distribution for 301312 samples is 251.61, and randomly
Arithmetic mean value of data bytes is 127.4828 (127.5 = random).
Monte Carlo value for Pi is 3.141980963 (error 0.01 percent).

Best regards, R-