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jasonwatkinspdxlast Wednesday at 1:32 AM1 replyview on HN

> or emptying the OS entropy pool during high loads.

Just a heads up that's not really a thing. If the CSPRNG is initialized correctly you're done. There's nothing being depleted. I know for ages the linux docs said different, they were just wrong and a maintainer was keeping a weird little fiefdom over it.


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sedatklast Wednesday at 2:10 AM

Thanks for the heads up, then it’s one less reason for ULID to adopt this weird behavior.