In mid-February, we reported on the plan to
unite the two kernel devices that provide random numbers;
/dev/urandom was to effectively just be another way to access the
random numbers provided by /dev/random. That change made it as
far as the mainline during…

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Text for H.R.4521 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021

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