off by one for 2014 July

Fri Jul 18 08:34:47 PST access to random information is important!:

Ever thought about what happens when an SSL implementation can't get access to random data? Or how fork() complicates the behavior of a pseudo-random number generator (PRNG)? You should. Now there's a proposal for a getrandom() system call in Linux.

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