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C++ | How to Safely Initialize std::mt19937

Analyzes the randomness weaknesses of seeding std::mt19937 with std::random_device and the default std::seed_seq, and shows how to initialize it correctly using /dev/urandom.

2 min

Where the Entropy for /dev/random and /dev/urandom in WSL Comes From

Traces the entropy behind getrandom, /dev/random, and /dev/urandom in WSL to Windows' BCryptGenRandom rather than to the Linux kernel.

1 min