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- https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom - https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom
- https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/user/tlecarrour/rng-tools.html - https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/user/tlecarrour/rng-tools.html
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rng-tools - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rng-tools
- https://www.howtoforge.com/helping-the-random-number-generator-to-gain-enough-entropy-with-rng-tools-debian-lenny
#### Steps #### Steps
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``` bash ``` bash
sudo apt-get install rng-tools sudo apt-get install rng-tools
``` ```
To Lazy: sed -i 's/#HRNGDEVICE='/'dev'/'null'/'HRNGDEVICE='/'dev'/'urandom/' /etc/default/rng-tools
1. Now we need to set the hardware device used to generate random numbers by adding this to `/etc/default/rng-tools`:
```
HRNGDEVICE=/dev/urandom
```
[For the lazy](#editing-configuration-files---for-the-lazy):
``` bash
echo "HRNGDEVICE=/dev/urandom" | sudo tee -a /etc/default/rng-tools
```
([Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)) ([Table of Contents](#table-of-contents))