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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:56:26 +0200
From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se>
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Hi,

Could someone on the list point me to a document that explains the 
functionality of /dev/random in FreeBSD in a little more depth than the 
man page? In other OS's I've looked at random and urandom are different, 
here it's a symlink (talking about RELENG-6 onwards).

Thanks!

Per olof