Announced chat control by the EU

[Robert J. Hansen]

> For Linux systems, for about five years now at system boot /dev/urandom 
> is initialized. Once it's fully initialized calls to /dev/random are 
> silently redirected to /dev/urandom. It doesn't take long at all for / 
> dev/urandom to spin up, either.

Forgot to add: ever since Ivy Bridge in 2012, the x86 (and x86_64) 
architecture has included RDRAND -- a true random number generator that 
reseeds about every 8k bytes generated.

On post-2012 x86/x86_64, Linux will cheerfully use RDRAND as one of many 
entropy sources feeding into /dev/random. It spins up fast and is rooted 
in a TRNG: what's not to love?
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